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Vanishing Night 

A Series of Letters Given Through 
Telepathic Correspondence 

to 

Juliet s. Goodenow 

by the late 

Frederic William Henry Myers 
An Eminent English Author 
Scholar and Scientist 
Contemporary with 
the Present 
Time 



TIMES-MIRROR PRESS 
Los Angeles, Cal. 

1923 




Copyright, 1923 
by 

JULIET S. GOODENOW 




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TELEPATHIC DEFINITION of 
SCIENCE and RELIGION 

Given by the Author 

San Diego, Calif., 
February 75, 1915. 

Life is religion and science. The two are 
sisters in one thought and purpose. The crea¬ 
tion of Life is scientific; the unfolding of Life 
is religion. To the enfolded flower within the 
bud, science at work creates form, color, tex¬ 
ture, measurement and estimates power of re¬ 
sistance to sun, rain, wind and climatic condi¬ 
tions. 

Geometrically poised on tree or bush, each 
leaf has the same scientific appointment. When 
the calyx is unfolded and breathes in the air, 
religion becomes the Life of the flower. The 
purity and sweet odor of the flower give back 
to earth a quickening process of reproduction, 
which inspires the heart of man to adoration. 

To all verdure, to sky, clouds, to mountains, 
sea and rivers, to grass, plain and valley, is 
given the interpretation of the soul’s cry for 
the Unknown. 

The mystery of Creation speaks to the soul 
in translation capable of intelligent analysis. 


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FOREWORD 

Juliet S. Goodenow 

D URING the closing months of 1912 and 
during January, 1913, the writer, while 
in Boston, sent out the first note of in¬ 
quiry to the Author concerning the human 
personality. The immediate response is given 
in this foreword, together with the only other 
communication received while in Boston. The 
next correspondence came in California in 1915 
when the Author urged the beginning of this 
notable work. During the year 1916 the work 
was necessarily delayed, to be resumed in New 
York City in January, 1917. These letters are 
presented to the publishers verbatim, together 
with the original manuscript. 

Some time prior to my winter in Boston, I 
had determined to give up inspirational writ¬ 
ing as I had at times obtained that which proved 
to be error. 

A dear one said: “Call some one of a visit¬ 
ing scientific mind. Do you think of one in the 
higher sphere?” I recalled a book I had read 
some ten or fifteen years before by Mr. Myers, 
entitled: “The Survival of Bodily Death.” I 


remember that the work was analytical and that 
the author had been called from earth. 

Suddenly his name came to my mind. This 
is all that I knew concerning Mr. Myers. With 
pen in hand, my sister by my side, I called with 
my inner voice: “Mr. Myers!” The reply came 
instantly, as follows: 

FIRST LETTER RECEIVED IN’ BOSTON IN 1912 

I am he. It does not take long for a spirit to travel. 
The first faint allusion to a spirit is heard. The time 
is advancing when the world shall know more about 
the world immortal. It is just that it should know. 
Why you have kept in the background, I cannot 
imagine, unless you are under Divine command. Un¬ 
doubtedly you are. You seem to understand why, and 
surely it is not for me to say you should give up your 
knowledge. But I am interested that the world should 
know that open communication may be had with this 
side at any time, and under conditions strictly normal. 

Can you not arrange to write a suitable magazine 
article on the subject, allowing me to dictate? Your 
memory has been somewhat injured by the many duties 
forcing the gray matter of the brain out of the chan¬ 
nels of thought into those of action. But you have 
cells enough to enable you to assimilate a great amount 
of knowledge. You ask if it will be possible to fill 
these cells with knowledge after the survival of bodily 
death. Surely you do not expect to leave these cells of 
yours behind when you come here! They will expand 
many times, and concepts will envelope them and in¬ 
troduce a stimulus that will cause your memory to 
become fixed and natural to your ability—a compen- 


sation which is truly appreciated by myself. The main 
ambition of my heart is to enlighten the world on this 
one point—that bona fide communication with the 
Unseen Universe is absolute proof of immortality. I 
am sure of this; but to convince the world requires 
indubitable proof, which you are able to furnish. 

Sincerely yours in the interests of Science. 

Frederic W. H. Myers. 

* * * * 

Boston, Mass., January, 1913. 


I am most happy to supply any information you may 
desire and I sincerely wish you would avail yourself of 
any knowledge I may have, and you know, from my 
standpoint, I may vouchsafe knowledge as substantially 
true and authentic without the display of the least 
egotism. There are many reasons why one could be 
misunderstood from this source of knowledge. First, 
the mind is complex—how much so, very few people 
ordinarily comprehend. There are as many strata of 
mind as there are sands in the sea or stars in the sky; 
some of these strata are attuned to lower orders of 
being and vibrate to thoughts of those within the range 
of the subconscious mind attuned to receive such vibra¬ 
tions. That this substrata could exist in the same per¬ 
sonality seems improbable, but it is true. The higher 
order of being brings the substrata to higher levels and 
the lower strata are finally brought beyond the reach 
of minds out of harmony with the Higher Mind. 
When at last the personality becomes disenthralled 
from the lower creation of being, there is less aptitude 
of deception. True, the mind may wander, or thought 
may not maintain its equilibrium. Mind is like a bird 
on the wing: it may soar into the heights and partake 



of the glory of the gods, or it may descend into the 
very depths and drink abysmal myrrh. So it is that 
a medium of expression cannot always be maintained. 

I recognize in you a power for good and for untold 
happiness. Let me come often for the sake of the 
humanities that are submerged and for the sake of the 
extension of God’s Kingdom. 

Frederic W. H. Myers. 


CONTENTS 


PAGE 

Telepathic Definition of Science and Religion . 3 

Foreword.5 

Introduction by the Writer.II 


Part One—Laws of Being 


CHAPTER 

I Transcendent Realities.19 

II Attainment of Being.22 

III The Strata of Being.28 

IV The Cycle of Being.34 

V The Unit of Life.39 

VI The Great Change.42 

VII What I Found to Do.46 


Part I Written in California in 1915; 
First Two Letters, 1912-13. 











Part Two—The Test of Personality 
Proof of Immortality 


CHAPTER PAGE 

VIII The Wonderful Peace.51 

IX The War Panorama.55 

X Journey through the Tenuous Atmos¬ 
phere—The Tender Shepherd . . 62 

XI A Message to the Mothers of the 

Race.70 

XII The Ministry of Heaven: Occupa¬ 
tion, Etc.75 

XIII Planetary Balance.79 

XIV The Shining Lights of Heaven . . 83 

XV Multiple Mind: The Birth of an 

Idea.87 

XVI The Elemental Disaster.92 

XVII If a Man Die, Shall He Live Again? 98 

XVIII The Family Unit.103 

XIX The New Era of Psychical Research 106 
XX The Master Creation: The Promise . 110 
XXI Memories of Childhood: Companion- 



ship . 

. . 116 

XXII 

The Relation of God to Man . 

. 120 

XXIII 

Love. 

. 127 

XXIV 

Marriage . 

. . 132 

XXV 

Heaven. 

. . 135 

XXVI 

The Drama of Worlds . . . 

. . 143 

XXVII 

Ralph Waldo Emerson . . . 

. . 151 

XXVIII 

Letter from the Author . . . 

. . 154 


Part II Written in New York, 1917, 
January, February, March. 















INTRODUCTION 


Ocean Park, California, 

January , iqi$. 

T O THE majority of readers, I am aware 
that an introduction of this nature must 
be exceedingly difficult to read and some¬ 
what dry. However, it seems quite necessary 
in a work of this kind where the writer or dic¬ 
tator is in the dark, or in a way invisible to the 
inquirer; people will naturally inquire into the 
nature of this correspondence so readily given 
before the world is quite ready to accept it as 
genuine, or as authentic. 

It is the history of all progress. Growth 
must needs be silent until perfection is attained; 
before the perfect fruit or flower is ripe. Thus 
we have been advancing in science. The last 
few years have brought much to light in science 
and invention; many secrets of nature are 
rapidly unfolding. The wireless telegraph is 
analogous to telepathy—for telepathy is the 
sole process used in the conveyance of these let¬ 
ters from the Here of Life, from the Trans- 
cendant to the Vale of Tears. Very few people 
today repudiate the science of telepathy. The 
world is rapidly advancing. When this idea is 


grasped in its entirety, the mystery of commu¬ 
nion, prayer and the Voice of God (which voice 
is the still small voice within the soul of man), 
will have entered into the conception of man 
and will be acknowledged as practical as well 
as scientific. 

There is no abnormality in telepathy. There 
is nothing new in wireless messages, atomically 
vibrating through space, save in the discovery 
of the laws governing etheric vibrations. Cer¬ 
tain instruments are attuned to vibrations— 
others are not attuned. All, however, may be 
attuned under proper conditions. To man, 
the attunement is inherent in his Being. This 
is the silken thread which binds soul to soul. 
This is the call center, the S. O. S. at sea! This 
is his certain help in time of disaster. There 
is nothing new in telepathy; it is part of the 
human personality; severing the soul from the 
body by death does not rob the soul of culture. 
The soul contains all that it gained of education 
and refinement while in the body, advancing in 
progress. 

The mother thinks of her departed child; 
the child responds, calling, “Mother!” Telep¬ 
athy reunites them. The child knows mother, 
but the mother does not know of that power 
within her being that lies dormant, awaiting 
development. The brain cells of the average 
man or woman are capable of very much more 
development than is generally known. Thought 


added each day, studying something beyond 
the generalities, will gradually open unused 
brain-cell capacity. All may not attain at once; 
a college course takes years of application. 
Materiality often obstructs spiritual advance¬ 
ment. 

i 

My correspondent is not clairvoyant, neither 
does she study spiritism, nor attend seances. 
She is normally attuned to etheric vibrations 
and is able, through the adaptation of her 
personality, to synchronize thoughts, negatived 
on the retina of her conscious mind. At the 
same time, her brain causes her hand to tran¬ 
scribe them on paper. This also is a scientific 
demonstration of a law applying to the human 
personality, applicable to those who may be 
willing to qualify. 

To understand Truth, we must not only 
grasp one side of the subject, but all sides, in¬ 
cluding the inside or the part usually considered 
immaterial to the end in view. I do not intend 
entering into any problematical discussion. 
Rather, it will be my aim to present my views 
in a simple manner which must of necessity be¬ 
gin with the reader, leading him step by step 
to the natural and, therefore, logical conclusion 
concerning the important matter of Life here¬ 
after. 

It should be kept in mind that the one who 
is dictating this paper has passed through the 
change called Death. That he is today alive, 


having taken his life, his mentality, his educa¬ 
tion, his power to reason, his outlook on affairs, 
into the world beyond the sight of those left 
behind. I hope to convince you that what is 
called Death is only the other side of Life. 
Both sides are necessary to the completed whole 
of Life’s experiences, as two sides are necessary 
to a structure of any kind. Personally, as I 
view myself, I am unchanged. I realize now 
that my garment of flesh was of little impor¬ 
tance. We place too great emphasis on mate¬ 
rial, vanishing substance. This is searching for 
dew in the warmth of the noonday sun. 

I am alive, in the full possession of my five 
senses, entering into the development of other 
senses more adaptable to the higher, finer strata 
of ether. I do not say better—I say finer, be¬ 
cause attunement is different. Higher, because 
of unlimited space. 

Nature is no charlatan. Most rigid in her 
demands of exactness, strict to pattern. To 
humanity she has been lavish in the bestowal 
of faculties: half she has buried deep within 
the nature she has so constructed as to conceal 
her handicraft. 

Man could not be great, approaching the 
Divine counterpart, if faculty could be dis¬ 
cerned at a glance, or “man measured as a 
measure of barley.” 

The deep recesses of a lofty mountain con¬ 
taining all within and without, are more indica- 


tive of man’s faculty, his normal self. Life 
here begins on the Other Side. You do not 
understand how this can be. The transition 
moment is the wedge that severs the material 
from the spiritual. 

The spirit bathes in the element it is accus¬ 
tomed to; therefore, the part of us that sur¬ 
vives bodily Death, is in its own natural ele¬ 
ment all of the time. The objective body does 
not apprehend that Spirit is communing with 
the great Universal Spirit, obtaining through 
absorption and vision much that is retained as 
spiritual culture; when at last the soul breaks 
away from its envelope of flesh, it is not a 
stranger in a strange land. 







Vanishing Night 


Two Parts 


Part I 

Laws of Being 


Part II 

The Test of Personality 
Proof of Immortality 




PART I 


LAWS OF BEING 


CHAPTER I 


TRANSCENDENT REALITIES 


January 3, 1915. 



HE subject matter of this book will be 


facts relating to life on the Sphere com¬ 


monly known as the hereafter. There 
is no hereafter; this is a misnomer. All human¬ 
ity is enveloped in what you call the hereafter, 
both on this side and the other side of life, as 
lived in the flesh. To be divested of the body 
is nothing more than putting aside the worn- 
out garment for one more worthy of a life on 
the Higher Sphere. There is no change other 
than this. Life goes on vibrant, conforming 
to natural laws, which are the same on both 
Planes. The worn-out body of flesh is worth 
the associations connected with it—nothing 
more nor less. It clothed the life of an individ¬ 
ual that has gone on; the clothing that con¬ 
cealed or contained for a brief period of his 
existence, was of no more value to him than 
your last year’s suit is to you. Granted this is 


20 


VANISHING NIGHT 


true, you know that your loved one is gone out 
of your sight. Here your knowledge ceases, 
for the poet has written, no traveler has re¬ 
turned to tell of the undiscovered land. We 
have been left to conjecture, based on human 
reasoning and belief in divine revelation. I 
claim that within every organism there is a 
proof of immortality. 

Science is unfolding through discovery the 
intricate powers of Being, from the perfected 
organism of protoplasm to the perfect man, 
created in the Image of God. Within this per¬ 
fect creation is resident a power many fail to 
find. Nevertheless, it lies deep within the com¬ 
plex nature of mankind. Animals have this 
power, to some extent. The normal man is a 
god, but rarely does he come to his estate, 
through ignorance of his inheritance. It is not 
so much a matter of choice as it is a matter of 
development. A man is a bundle of faculties, 
to use according to his will and education. 
Some lie so deep within his soul that he fails 
to discover his treasure of riches. One must 
needs become acquainted with one’s interior 
being. There are vast fields of discovery 
within, worth exceeding scrutiny; there is no 
wall of division between that interior wall of 
man on that side and the man free from earth’s 
limitations on this side. To become acquainted 
with the interior life is to launch a craft on 


TRANSCENDENT REALITIES 21 

the sea that reaches the shores of Infinity— 
there is nothing to obstruct your voyage. Your 
safety lies in your judgment, as sense becomes 
alert, and capable of analytical experiences. 
Harmonies reveal the approach of something 
ideal hitherto beyond the grasp of spiritual 
sense. You have touched a chord responding 
to your need; now a harp with a thousand 
strings plays within your soul. Your inner ear 
receives the impression of angelic voices; for 
the veil that separates the seen and the unseen 
is very thin. You have clasped hands across 
the border, and interchange of thought and 
knowledge and correspondence is possible in 
the exercise of the impression you receive 
through actual contact with Truth. You should 
cultivate your impressions, your intuitions— 
trust them as your guide where you travel and 
discover by sense. This faculty is easy of cul¬ 
tivation, when the student applies himself to 
the task. The cultivation of the spiritual will 
be slow as learning a foreign language; the 
material must be held in abeyance, or the dross 
of matter will obscure the transcendant realities 
awaiting discovery. 


CHAPTER II 


ATTAINMENT OF BEING 

Ocean Park, California, 

January 22 } 1915. 

dE rapidity of thought illustrates the 



flight of spirit; few guess that thought 


is so rapid in reaching the one to whom 
thought is given. I may be traveling thousands 
of miles in some foreign planet unknown to 
the world, when a thought holds me spell¬ 
bound and I get the import of it and respond 
in the same way, my thought attuned to one of 
my vibrations—by this I mean one who has 
traveled along the same line of research or one 
who may be interested in the things I am inter¬ 
ested in. To all such, thought is instantaneous. 
There is absolutely no reason why I should dis¬ 
continue my journey eastward; if my mission 
carries me eastward, and a message comes to 
me from the Pacific Coast, I may address my 
thought-waves, bidding them attend to receiv¬ 
ing all that is attuned to my ear, and likewise 
I am able to converse with great ease and 
fluency where there are no cross currents. Let 
one come who is not in tune, and his magnetic 


ATTAINMENT OF BEING 23 

waves cross mine and a ground wire is on— 
there can be no messages. 

Tonight I am riding a white charger with 
a captain who is marshaling forces—for the 
world conflict rages here as well as there. The 
battle-ground of the world lies before us, and 
were it not for our knowledge of This Side of 
life, it would seem a most desperate tragedy. 
We rejoice when every little while one is 
brought into the light of a perfect day. The 
world guesses the truth of this onslaught of 
men—this great, unreasonable war. The 
warring elements typify other days in history, 
when the handwriting appeared on the wall. I 
am not invited to discuss the war, but to invite 
the attention of the public to the fact of the 
continuity of life. I wish that I might enter 
into a logical discussion of the subject in my 
desire to prove what I know to be a fact. If 
continuity of life is untrue, then the creation 
has been a colossal failure; microscopic crea¬ 
tion as revealed by strong lenses is perfect in 
creation, and in the object of creation. All is 
rhythmic, from the lowest to the intermediate, 
and on to the highest development of the crea¬ 
ture, man. To bring this highest type of crea¬ 
tion to the zenith of perfection, and then to 
destroy him, would be the work of a monster, 
devoid of intellect or capable of affection or 
power to continue the creation he has begun. 


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VANISHING NIGHT 


There is in every nature love of kind. This is 
deeply imbedded in the lower, as well as the 
higher types of creation. God, the Creator, 
has indicated his love for man. The Bible is 
full of references of God’s love for his people 
—the reasoning is obvious. The most exquisite 
flower is the violet, almost hid in a mass of 
protecting leaves. The great secret of the 
Universe may be revealed to those who care¬ 
fully brush away doubts, which conceal the 
truth about important matters lying about, as 
violets covered with a mass of leaves. 

Once again, let me urge you to reason over 
the truth in your mind—all about you are 
forces on This Side of life. You are being 
bathed in a spiritual ether, as your thought in¬ 
trudes the Spheres. Think much of this. 
Spiritual ether is full of vibrant Truth—in 
time your thought will assimilate Truth, which 
will become to you an experience beyond dis¬ 
pute. I learned this truth about my inner re¬ 
ceptivity while on the Other Side of life. I 
found on my arrival here that my intuition had 
not been false to my conviction of Truth. 

Many people on the Other Side have rea¬ 
soned this out, and no other evidence of the 
continuity of life is necessary. 



ATTAINMENT OF BEING 


25 


San Diego, California, 
April 24 ) iq 1 5. 

From this letter I shall endeavor to satisfy 
the craving in the minds of those who long for 
the revealment of that which the eye hath not 
seen nor the hearing fully revealed—until the 
fulfillment of vision comes with the going out 
of the Vital Spark, called the Breath of Life. 

The universal opinion has been and is today 
that life ends with that which has commonly 
been called death. This is the greatest mis¬ 
take man has ever made, and because of this 
belief thousands of millions have gone down 
to the grave in terror of soul, believing them¬ 
selves the victims of a relentless fate. If this 
were true, it would be the cataclysm of human 
destiny—impossible to the conception of love, 
contrary to the human or divine tenderness, the 
love of father for child, the creator for the 
created in his image. 

Life becomes altogether different when di¬ 
vested of the veil of flesh that has always 
obstructed the vision. This alone closes out 
the view that is transcendent about us all. 

It is my intention to define the life on This 
Side as clearly as possible, that all dread may 
be removed from those whose passing may be 
soon. Fear may be substituted by peace of 
mind and rest of body in the assurance that life 
is continuous. The invisible world about us 


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VANISHING NIGHT 


contains much that is beautiful as well as the 
reverse. To those who love the beautiful and 
hate the opposite, there is little to apprehend 
or to fear. Mind attracts like mind, and we 
draw to us those whom we wish. In my garden 
the flowers I love bloom and birds sing—the 
same birds that flutter about your gardens— 
the same butterflies also come into my garden 
that light on your trellises; the same bees make 
honey here that contribute to your table the 
sweets of the hive; the same grass that you 
have in your lawns—and the trees abound. 
There is nothing unnatural here. Little toads 
hop along my path; and frogs leap and bound 
here in the pools about the garden—grasshop¬ 
pers fly about and daddy-long-legs attract little 
children as they did when I was a boy and 
chased them to get my direction. 

The possibility of enlarging the horizon of 
our spiritual vision is very great. The masses 
of the people fail to obtain the necessary re¬ 
quirements in this busy life so full of the needs 
of the body. 

Concentration of thought alone prepares the 
mind to receive impressions. It is of infinite 
importance that I give you some idea of the im¬ 
portance of searching after Truth. Do not 
begin the search aimlessly; expect to find what 
you are looking after—if it is the analysis of 
a problem that is within the range of your 




ATTAINMENT OF BEING 


27 


analytical power of comprehension, you will 
find the answer. If you are searching after 
melody, the harp of a thousand strings will 
vibrate the chords of desire. To know this is 
power! 

This lies within the boundary of every life— 
not only those gifted intellectually, but the 
world’s middle or lower classes may enrich 
their vocabulary and vision. The quiet hour, 
interpenetration, expansion and propelling the 
fixed idea, holding it firm within the mind until 
the brain power behind it views it from all di¬ 
rections and becomes acquainted with the new 
product that leads on to other and greater 
ideas, still on and still further on until illumi¬ 
nation of the mind reveals Truth in all her 
charm and loveliness. 


CHAPTER III 


THE STRATA OF BEING 

February f 1915. 

T HE STRATUM of being is the funda¬ 
mental truth of life advancing with the 
development of species from birth to the 
transition of life on This Side, rounding out 
the period to continue evolution. To the babe 
whose full life is rounded out on the higher 
plane, the advancement is made rapidly, as 
errors of belief and unscientific methods of life 
retard progress; the scholar or scientist who 
has gained access to universal thought through 
vibration is lifted by his progress to a higher 
stratum of thought—through his aspiration, 
knowledge is attained. The abridgment of 
soul capacity is optional; “to him that hath, 
shall be given, and from him that hath not shall 
be taken even that which he hath.” This is an 
arbitrary fact, a scientific truth worth consider¬ 
ing. 

Dr. James and I often discuss the matter of 
imparting to the world knowledge that may be 
of infallible worth. James thinks that we must 
rely on the human personality itself, for there 


THE STRATA OF BEING 29 

is resident in everyone a substantiation of truth. 
The seeker after truth finds a response to his 
search identical with the thing he searches 
after. If after reading my words and the facts 
I relate, my co-workers feel that the character 
of the words and subject matter expressed are 
characteristic of me; if I am suggested to the 
minds of my more intimate friends; English 
and American friends conclude that my mind 
is back of what is written, there is little need 
of further truth, for individuality is not easily 
simulated, especially in literature. We may 
borrow words ad infinitum, but style attaches to 
the author, as the fit of a suit. There is noth¬ 
ing convincing, but has some relative corre¬ 
spondence somewhere. If I direct your atten¬ 
tion to a leaf in my ledger, to the name of a 
friend who borrowed five hundred francs of 
me in 1872 , and ask you to collect the same 
and return it to the family I left, and in search¬ 
ing the files you find the identical book, you 
may conclude that this is proof sufficient. But 
it is really of very little worth to prove con¬ 
clusively that someone on the Other Side im¬ 
parted this information. 

The fact that so little valuable information 
has been given in this way should be sufficient 
to prove, not a fraud, but that people do not 
know that they are unscientific in this. Science 
should discover a way of definite understanding 


30 


VANISHING NIGHT 


of Truth. If I am able to direct the attention 
of my co-workers to a line in my ledger, when 
I should be directing my God-given power and 
the privilege of communicating with them, to 
acquaint the public with something of value, 
why should a life transcending the border come 
back to speak of trivial things? Dr. James 
suggests that seekers after truth may depend 
on interior deduction or inference, proving the 
truth by experiment; if the experimentation 
proves to be correct, the same may be depended 
on, as the same law applies here as there, ap¬ 
plicable on both sides of life. 

There are teachers here who are glad to 
communicate knowledge. The way of under¬ 
standing is the way to knowledge. Many men 
here are scientifically advanced, far beyond the 
horizon of my vision. I may not be able to 
explain simply, as faculty enlarges the under¬ 
standing; I am not able to ascertain how far the 
understanding has advanced since my coming 
here. It is not that men do not know, but not 
having been far enough on a journey, the hori¬ 
zon shuts in the view—be this as it may, I am 
constantly learning something. There is no 
more interesting study to me than the human 
personality. I have said what every thinking 
man knows: that Nature is harmonious; that 
man and stars are the same product. The 
thought I have in mind is that of Strata of Be- 


THE STRATA OF BEING 31 

ing, delicate, too refined, too intricate for dis¬ 
cussion. We seem to be on Holy Ground. 
The Creator has covered this subject with a 
veil that is now to be lifted for the understand¬ 
ing of all the world. Strata of Being, sacred 
words, expressive of more than you may 
imagine, with all the imagination of the intel¬ 
lect. Had I the gift of language—but here 
language is expressed in countless million ways. 
The voice is but a feeble instrument—words 
are so many toys of speech. The Strata of 
Being, the mind at once associates strata with 
rocks, or mountains, or earth formations; for 
life is mosaic, built of gem thoughts, here and 
there a jewel of intrinsic value, here a thorn or 
briar—a rose or stubble, life values incorpo¬ 
rated in Being. 

Who has been given choice of what he finds 
within his being? There is resident in the 
human personality so many Strata of Being, 
that any one of these strata might contain a 
minimum of knowledge equal to any I might 
seek to impart. Be this as it may, I must write 
in the language men are wont to speculate in. 

The creation of man is the height of creative 
power, as one half the creative power is por¬ 
trayed on that side of life. It is impossible to 
gain a clear idea of what man’s nature contains 
or its tremendous possibilities. To understand 
this is difficult of comprehension, even after the 


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VANISHING NIGHT 


Change, unless much time is given to studying 
the subject. My study while there gave me 
hope to continue; to some extent, I have been 
able to gratify my ambition. 

Man makes selection of what he finds; he 
chooses his values. His garden is Self—undi¬ 
vided, invisible, interior self. For the interior 
Self, or Being, is all that is worth discussing— 
or all that man has to deal with in the last 
analysis. I use this guardedly: to some it may 
convey a thought of definite judgment—but the 
expression is valueless—it is rhetorically fine, 
but of no significance, as there never will be the 
last analysis . Had I been given the power to 
behold my Being, as I view it now, I would 
have gathered together more of the best there 
was given for my selection. 

Today I am given the opportunity of light¬ 
ing a candle and placing it on a high hill, that 
it may shine into many lives. Where did this 
conglomerate come from that found entrance 
into the life of man? From the same source 
that vital energy comes from and hurls planets 
through space ! This is not figurative language, 
and only one of a million of sources the most 
remote ancestor has given of ages beyond him. 
The brain staggers! Nature’s contribution of 
all her attributes is fathomless. Within this 
creation are faculties unused within the span 
of life there; occasionally one reaches out into 




THE STRATA OF BEING 


33 


infinitude and discovers harmonies; one makes 
a chart—again other harmonies and new and 
vastly different experiences. He is reaching 
different Strata of Being and learning the way 
into the Holy of Holies of life. He feels now 
the vibration that unites the seen with the un¬ 
seen. This is not attained by magic. It is the 
natural growth of the within—or spiritual be¬ 
ing. All are created with the same ability of 
proving the accuracy of this statement. This 
is the “straight and narrow way” of scriptural 
utterance, because of its difficult attainment. 



CHAPTER IV 


THE CYCLE OF BEING 

San Diego, California, 

April 13 , iq 15. 

T HE INFORMATION I am prepared to 
give is valuable to the world as coming 
from one who made a study of psychical 
research while on the nether side of life. This 
is helpful to me for information gained from 
education along any line of thought, whatso¬ 
ever it may be, is helpful to the student on this 
side of life. 

We know by the very nature of things that 
mind touches mind—be it on this side or the 
other. The infringement of thought is one of 
the most frequent sources of irritation we have 
to contend with—not knowing our interior self, 
we cannot account for the interference, and 
often feel baffled and unable to understand 
why we are disturbed and unable to think collec¬ 
tively. 

The minute fibre of the brain offers little re¬ 
sistance to impressions. While this is valuable 
beyond language to portray, the ether in which 
the human is submerged, is electrically charged 



THE CYCLE OF BEING 


35 


—some magnets more highly charged, giving 
out a greater dynamic force, attract similar 
magnets in different bodies; to the instructed 
in physics, this will be clear enough. However, 
we are laboring in the dark. To feel obstruc¬ 
tions we cannot see arouses fear and resistance. 

This very resistance is contrary to the result 
we might hope for, could we see the interior 
life as it is. Open all the avenues of approach. 
Whatever comes to you is gain—this is prod¬ 
uct of your own building, the result of your 
desire, the training you have received, your 
implement of research and the longed-for miss¬ 
ing link of discovery. This is achievement. 
The inventor—the man of genius—the poet, 
recognizes that education is fundamental to 
knowledge. That which the mind receives dur¬ 
ing the years of education becomes the nucleus, 
the negative or impression-wax of all that 
comes along the years of active experience in 
placing in adjustment theories we have believed 
to be true. 

We are constantly finding out that knowl¬ 
edge, through experience, is overthrowing ideas 
that once were taught in the universities. That 
nations fall through the error of man-made 
conception of principle. Germany is suffering 
today, in consequence of her having accepted 
as truth the writings of misguided theorists, in¬ 
volving the world in a conflict of opinion. 


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Materialists have accomplished this tragic re¬ 
sult through the materialistic belief of the 
nation. Education has been Germany’s strong 
bulwark before all nations of the world today. 

The student understands that education, as 
taught by this nation through the wisdom of 
her universities, has changed her day into night. 

Nations that overdevelop materialistic ideas 
lose the necessary spiritual balance to retain 
sufficient equilibrium. I deviate somewhat 
from my subject, to prove the essential things 
we should endeavor to obtain—knowledge 
throws upon experience a searchlight. We 
have learned that within is the universal way 
leading to this Wisdom. 

It is not so much what you will find when 
you come to this side of life as what you will 
bring with you. 

* * * * 

April 24, /p/5. 

Sleep is the best definition of death I know 
anything about—just going to sleep unafraid, 
to awake in a new and beautiful room, and to 
be satisfied. This is all there is. About us are 
our dear friends and loved ones, our children 
coming on before we have been invited to come. 
It is the glad coming-home to rest, after a toil¬ 
some journey; there are no more anxious days 
or nights; the changes here are atmospheric— 
natural, wholesome. A world within a world 




THE CYCLE OF BEING 


37 


of different appointments, scientifically oppo¬ 
site. The Upper World is the world I am in, 
living on the Other Side of life. I am round¬ 
ing out the cycle of my life begun there on the 
Lower Side—the other side or the Lower Side 
is as essential as the Upper Side, that which I 
have entered. 

The system is one with many systems, gov¬ 
erning the Universe. The only mystery is that 
of silence concerning this higher development, 
understanding of which belongs to this sphere 
of progress and concerning which the concepts 
of man’s brain is mute. To man is given brain 
cells for the cycle of Being. That all these 
tissues are not developed on the Lower Side of 
life, is evidence of another phase of existence 
that will call into activity tissues prepared for 
a finer susceptibility, a broader understanding. 

* * * * 

April 25, 1915. 

Human life together with life, all is life, 
speaking with accuracy, all is organization and 
has its orbit. This is a figure of speech to 
illustrate motion—for all life is motion. The 
form of life we are holding up to analysis is 
the human element; I repeat the word, organi¬ 
zation , as this word illustrates more fully my 
meaning. From the embryonic state to the end 
of the first stage, life continues to operate its 
various functions independent of any means 


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other than contributory elements in which life 
is submerged—air being the chief element. All 
Nature contributes to sustain life from the 
human to the vegetable and mineral, cradled in 
immensity, suckled at the breast of nature, it 
survives all disintegrating substances out of 
harmony with its supply. 


CHAPTER V 


THE UNIT OF LIFE 

Ocean Park, California, 
February 2 t igi 5. 

TT“ 1 HE CONDITION of the world today is 
peculiarly adaptable to spiritual investi¬ 
gation. Changes are going on atmos¬ 
pherically, inducing a magnetic influence, at¬ 
tracting the mind to spiritual forces. The open 
mind may gain access to truth through the con¬ 
tinuous vibration going on in the elements. 
This of itself is a valuable source of informa¬ 
tion—none need complain of lack of education 
in spiritual matters. The world is an open 
book full of vast research. The applied spirit¬ 
ual power may control this information, as 
lightning is controlled, and when once the ap¬ 
plication is tested, there is no limit to the uni¬ 
versal understanding of all mysteries. 

The only way Truth may be obtained, is 
through the culture of experience; I may de¬ 
scribe the beauties of nature in which I have 
my spiritual being and my spiritual home, I 
may tell you radiant stories of my surround¬ 
ings, but this will only interest the curious and 



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VANISHING NIGHT 


edify those who seek amusement. My purpose 
is to explain a way that may lead to a discovery 
of your own powers of investigation, disclosing 
what to you will be a vision surpassing anything 
hitherto imagined. To those unacquainted 
with spiritual traveling, I may suggest that con¬ 
science is a good route to begin with. Many 
endeavor to evade or quiet the conscience, hav¬ 
ing been taught that it is the voice of God, con¬ 
demning certain acts or conduct and only used 
to admonish or to punish the offender—as we 
dread scolding, so have we dreaded the voice 
of conscience; to be sure conscience mirrors 
truth and is a direct way of understanding— 
it is the gate leading within and beyond the 
boundaries usually traveled by those on the 
Other Side of life. 

There is no reason why the soul of man 
should not look on life as a unit. It is his pre¬ 
rogative as a divine being. To accomplish this 
needs preparation, as any accomplishment or 
art needs preparation or certain culture. This 
is not religion, as commonly believed on the 
Other Side; life rounded out as view on This 
Side of life is nothing but religion; science is 
religion; all converges to the point of cleavage 
when soul is supposed to separate from body— 
one remains, the other disappears. The relig¬ 
ious part is supposed to disappear; now, as a 
matter of fact, both disappear—you know that 


THE UNIT OF LIFE 


41 


one disintegrates, and after that you are as 
much in the dark as before. Here we usually 
stop thinking much about the matter, leaving it 
for Eternity to explain;—this question you can 
circumnavigate. 

Science exposes the cerebral cavity as unex¬ 
plored to even half its brain cells. What the 
other half holds in reserve for our enlighten¬ 
ment, we are free to admit we do not know. 
Our containers are empty, while we go about 
trying to find out from someone else what 
Nature has endowed us with, with marvelous 
generosity; nor is this difficult of attainment. 
To find a gold mine is difficult, because of our 
ignorance of the stratum of earth, but the 
Strata of Being contain the Unit of Life. 


CHAPTER VI 


THE GREAT CHANGE 

January, IQ15. 

f ■ M IE ASTRAL body contains the embry¬ 
onic cellular sphere that dissolution of 
^ the material does not destroy. This 
contains in negative form the concepts of the 
brain cells used during the life on earth. Here 
there is the added multiform with its tissues, 
containing much more than has been received 
by the brain sufficiently strong to make impres¬ 
sions. These faint impressions are preserved, 
and when introduced into the light on this side, 
become legible and distinct. The individual 
recalls the faint impression and the memory 
adds to its receptive powers ad infinitum, others, 
etc. 

Thus you will see that we do not come into 
a strange life or atmosphere. That which 
comes is habituated, and naturally continues to 
live and move and have its being in its natural 
environment, its home element. 

Physical lungs, heart and body being mater¬ 
ial, would be stranger to this side, as they be¬ 
long only to the initiatory state of being. That 



THE GREAT CHANGE 


43 


which does belong and is native to this element 
finds no difficulty or strangeness here. All is 
natural and homelike about the soul released 
and able to swing free, and continuing to re¬ 
main free. 

There is no sorrow here. The joy of release 
is very great, as one ushered out of prison into 
a new and beautiful country. Here atmos¬ 
pheric conditions enhance beauty and colors; 
the perfume of flowers sweeter than those of 
earth and more perfect in form and color, hav¬ 
ing passed the rudimentary stage, as expressed 
in the initial period. 

When first I came, I did not apprehend that 
a change had taken place. I had become some¬ 
what familiar with the place I found myself in, 
nothing seemed unnatural—when suddenly I 
became aware that my cloak was gone. I 
reached out my hand, thinking it had fallen on 
the ground. I observed there was no ground 
under my feet. I found myself in the air, 
slightly moving. A friend was near me. He 
spoke casually of a new specimen he had found. 
I was greatly surprised at my discovery, and 
very much elated that I had passed the Great 
Ordeal. I wanted then to return and tell the 
world the truth of life and the wonders of 
Transition to this Side. 

I spoke to my friend, interested in his new 
specimen. He told me that I appeared so un- 


VANISHING NIGHT 


+4 

concerned about my new life that he had 
watched to see what I would do when at last I 
discovered myself. My mind instantly re¬ 
verted to those loved ones left behind. I won¬ 
dered if they knew I had departed on my Long 
Journey. I wanted so much to take my long 
farewell and to tell them how much I loved 
them and how eagerly I should await their com¬ 
ing. This condition of mind drew me nearer 
to earth, where I could feel the sorrow of my 
family and friends. Here I stayed, feeling 
helpless to leave, sorrowing for those whom I 
had left so abruptly. Many others were also 
close to the earth, within the magnetic circle 
of earthly joys and human affection. Suddenly 
I felt the desire to lift their thoughts with mine 
to the life I had entered so quietly; I felt my 
life drawing them—I had lifted them into a 
different sphere of thought where they received 
comforting assurances; we seemed to meet on 
the old familiar plane. I know they felt my 
presence, as I did theirs. 

Then I came into the upper atmosphere, to 
begin my life work, endeavoring not to allow 
abstraction to deter me from my pursuit of 
knowledge. 

I desired to find my home. A guide ap¬ 
peared on the way, and I followed him. We 
traveled what seemed a long distance. I mar¬ 
veled that I was so far from home. Distances 


THE GREAT CHANGE 


45 


do not seem to be so great. I knew that I had 
seen my home before—it seemed very natural. 
Here I found several of my favorite books— 
a friend had placed them there. Shortly after 
my home-coming, a number came in for a 
friendly chat; nothing seemed strange or un¬ 
natural here. The strange or unnatural seemed 
not to belong here, but to that other side where, 
beginning as a babe, I had rounded out my 
earthly existence. 


CHAPTER VII 


WHAT I FOUND TO DO 

San Diego, California, 
May ii, 1915- 

I HAD NOT been here long before I real¬ 
ized my opportunity of service, which is 
always waiting response in the soul. I 
discovered many on this side wandering about 
untaught, spiritually, who had, many of them, 
made a success in material things, but of the 
inner life that prevails here, were ignorant. 
One man whom I knew in New York recog¬ 
nized me as I passed his home in one of the 
lesser streets, for streets and avenues here are 
not unlike those below. We find our station in 
life here, as there, and find our homes accord¬ 
ing to our wealth; but the coin of exchange is 
not barter in the market places, as you antici¬ 
pate. It is measured by what a man has gained 
of spiritual worth,—it may be that riches have 
been his in material things as well as spiritual. 
This does not mean so much the spiritual 
knowledge or education he may have received 
in his college course or academic training—but 


WHAT I FOUND TO DO 47 

it means self-sacrifice for others, for the sake 
of others—not for earthly gain—but for the 
love of others, preferably to self. One who 
ministers to his own life for the sake of self 
exhausts spiritual growth and dwarfs his life, 
closing the curtains, admitting no rays of light 
from without, and finally exhausting his own 
supply of light thereby, living in darkness and 
returning to the same element when he passes 
to the other side of life. To these people 
dwelling in darkness, we often go. They love 
to welcome us for the shining light of those of 
us who have been able to gain admittance to the 
light by means of what may be a different en¬ 
vironment, or a right starting point, is most 
brilliant. 

These poor souls are anxious to begin their 
study as the physical and the material is all 
they have. The spirit came naked and starved. 
Ministering angels are always about them, giv¬ 
ing themselves to the work of instruction and 
leading them into the light of assimilation. 
This flood-tide bathes them in ether and nega¬ 
tives impressions—as a child in school studies 
the blackboard. 

The homes of these people, dwelling in dark¬ 
ness, are quite bare and devoid of ornamenta¬ 
tion. Please understand this is not arbitrary. 
They have made choice and must abide by the 


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selection of life they have chosen, as man, being 
a free agent, connot be coerced into changing 
his life except by his own free will. 

* * * * 

May 1 6 , 1915, 3:30 P. M., Cloudy. 

This afternoon, a company of men and 
women attended the exposition, examining with 
much pleasure the architecture and general ar¬ 
rangement of the grounds. “Science of Man” 
attracted me, of course, and I have been ex¬ 
ceedingly gratified to see the interest people 
are taking in this important feature of the 
work. 

The day is peculiarly adapted to the atmos¬ 
pheric needs of the released spirit—the with¬ 
drawal of the sun’s rays and the adjustment of 
electrical vibrations. 

* * * * 

Question : 

Do the electrical vibrations interfere with the spirit 
in any way? 

Answer : 

You wish to inquire if we are troubled by the influx 
of electricity in our nearing the Earth? 

The electrical fluid permeates the atmos¬ 
phere at great heights, and we are familiar with 
its contact. It in no manner affects spirit robed 
in vapor, other than to make more luminous 
our appearance—light, however, is different, 
absorbing our veils completely in diffusing 


WHAT I FOUND TO DO 


49 


thought. This explains why communication is 
difficult when the sun shines. Cloudy days hosts 
of shining ones visit the earth and mingle with 
friends and loved ones. These days are sig¬ 
nificant of rejoicing here, and much gain is re¬ 
ceived by the earth in consequence. We convey 
to those whom we visit, spiritual blessings. 
What we believe—the thoughts we bear our 
friends—are enriched by contact with their 
thought. This is communion, often unrecog¬ 
nized, save by a sense of exaltation—a feeling 
of content, a sense of well-being. 

* * * * 

May iy, 1915 f 12 M. 

The importance of finding clearly the rela¬ 
tionship between the seen and the unseen is ex¬ 
ceedingly great. The only barrier to this law 
governing both worlds is that of mortal sight. 
This is physical, and therefore not permanent. 
The emphasis on this word physical makes my 
meaning clear. 

Life is spiritual and touched on all sides by 
the spiritual universe; interpretation through 
the sense, independent of the physical eyesight, 
may be obtained by the cultivation of the Inner 
Life, as already explained in these pages. All 
is natural. There is nothing abnormal in cre¬ 
ation, as God created the universe in harmony, 
subject to certain irrevocable laws, transgres- 


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sion of which introduces the only abnormality 
we know anything about. 

As seasons come and go in the round of cli¬ 
matic changes, so Life revolves on its axis and 
departs after having performed its function 
for which it found expression on the lower 
plane. All is natural and government is radi¬ 
cal; being prearranged at the time life and 
worlds began as a system. I cannot explore 
the life I live here, on this side of life, without 
first bringing the mind into subjection of there 
being but one life, and the continuity of it ex¬ 
tending into Infinitude. 


PART II 

THE TEST OF PERSONALITY 
PROOF OF IMMORTALITY 


CHAPTER VIII 

THE WONDERFUL PEACE 

New York City, 
January //, igij. 

T HERE ARE many gathered here in this 
cosy home this evening, and much im¬ 
portance is attached to this renewal of 
the work begun so long ago in California. 
Times are changing there, and we are con¬ 
cerned that the world should learn more of the 
facts as they are—so much is written of blood¬ 
shed and battles and wrongs committed; of 
woe and desolation, that we have thought best 
to lift the thought of the world into the atmos¬ 
phere higher up, where there is peace and 
where thought of inharmony and war never 
obtains. 

The world knows its sorrow, and now, as 
never before in its long and faithful history, 
the people of the world are surfeited with the 


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horror of war in its dire details. Let us forget 
war in our future discussion, and leave the 
world of the flesh and the limitations of the 
body and ascend into this realm of the Universe 
where peace is everlasting and eternal. 

This is not theoretical, it is scientific, and will 
readily be accepted as such as we proceed to 
explore the vistas of the stars. The humanities 
are engaged in binding up bruises, but there are 
bruises of the soul and of the spirit that we 
are able to bind up and enrich with the wisdom 
of the universe. “Come unto me, all ye that 
labor and are heavy-laden and I will give ye 
rest”—Jesus taught Science more than he 
taught Religion. This scientific statement is 
the outcome of the heart’s impulse to reach out 
to that which will satisfy the need of the soul. 
The body reclines on a smooth surface and 
may be rested and refreshed—not so the soul; 
the man himself is urged by his restlessness to 
the verge of despair—where, oh where, can 
he find rest and quiet of spirit? His soul is 
aflame with the tragedy of life, the mockery of 
existence. One speaks! Commanded by Om¬ 
nipotence—out of the void comes answer to the 
need of the soul. Come unto me. Flee as a 
bird. All this is figurative language and is sug¬ 
gestive of a place of peace; not a dogmatic 
utterance, but the essential need of one who 
was born of woman and acquainted with grief. 




THE WONDERFUL PEACE 53 

Here there is the shield and the buckler, the 
defender of the race, and the invitation circles 
the universe of souls. 

To be lifted up above the web of fate that 
encircles a man like a chain, binding him to 
conditions impossible of change, is the work 
of the Master Builder, the Creator of man and 
of the world and systems of worlds. Man is 
the master of his fate—the creator of his des¬ 
tiny. The invitation is expressed in kingly 
language and to the inheritors of kingdoms. 
To men on the earth plane by One who had 
lived the earth life and knew the sorrows of 
the soul, and who had in his wisdom discovered 
the remedy of relief. There is peace, wonder¬ 
ful peace very near—and to those who do not 
know of this by experience, let me suggest a 
way to find it. 

I am writing to men and women of grown 
stature, students of art and of literature, physics 
and invention, etc. You will not find it in 
books—the wisdom of children is spoken of as 
worth more than the wisdom of sages. The 
within of the soul. The intellect of interior 
being instructs, where books often imitate and 
reflect, distorting images as shadows in some 
stagnant pool. 

* * * * 

January 12, IQ17. 

Tonight the hosts about us are full of the 



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thought of helpfulness to the world as never 
before; the windows of heaven are open to the 
cry of those who suffer, and ministering spirits 
are busy with the cry of those who yearn for 
peace and for solitude in the stress of disaster. 
The most appalling disaster of time nearing 
eternity. All here are laboring to bring about 
a righteous peace. There is no time to waste. 
We are onlookers of a terrible holocaust; we 
look away, to return to our labors with a feel¬ 
ing of intense desire to work longer and to ac¬ 
complish greater results. 

The thought of the world suffering in the 
throes of war that shows no sign of abatement, 
the spread of hate and of revenge, the spirit of 
greed, the distress of nations unparalleled in 
the world’s history, is the torch that sets all 
heaven ablaze with sympathy! 


CHAPTER IX 


THE WAR PANORAMA 

January ig , IQIJ. 

A S I LOOK out over the world tonight, I 
see much that is sorrowful there on the 
Earth Plane. But those of us who see 
both sides are glad to read the story of it all as 
we see it—Here. Those children of sorrow 
below are beginning their earlier entrance to 
life Here; and millions who might have ex¬ 
tended sorrowful lives of hardship and penury, 
are now in the fields of bounty, and in the en¬ 
richment of culture, and beginning the study of 
whatever they most desire to learn. There 
are groups of classes everywhere. The hill¬ 
sides are full of children and half-grown boys 
and girls, men and women lately arrived, 
reveling in their new experience—for never be¬ 
fore have there been so many strange people of 
all nations in heaven at once. Interpreters are 
about, modifying languages and teaching groups 
to understand each other. All are deeply con¬ 
cerned with the affairs they have suddenly left, 
and it is with much precaution that your hand 
is guarded. Do not fear^-you are safe—but 


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you may well imagine how eagerly the veil is 
scanned that separates us. 

One little child running about here is crying 
for “Mother!” And just now, a sweet woman 
who had left her little ones, gathered the child 
to her bosom and said in soft French, “Oui ma 
cherie, la mere!” The little one nestled close 
and both were wafted away content in finding 
solace in the companionship of loving need. 

A little boy, alone, is wandering about, catch¬ 
ing toads, and putting them in a basket—he has 
a net tied to a stick and holds it where the toads 
jump into it. He seems to be happy and it is 
not yet evident to him that his mother is not 
here. But the Lord watches over His own and 
the little lambs torn from the fold are given 
into the care of angels whose life work is the 
care of the young. And here happiness and 
growth seem never to fail in masterful sequence 
—for boys and girls grow strong in appearance 
and more beautiful in maturity. They are not 
hardened by speculative pursuits, nor engaged 
in working out the problems of existence, nor 
keeping at bay the proverbial wolf—but gather 
into their faces the sunshine of culture, of 
things pertaining to growth and development 
of life here. 

Many are interested in musical composition, 
for here the harmonies are listed and easily 
attuned to the most delicate vibrations. The 


THE WAR PANORAMA 


57 


most exquisite musical compositions I have ever 
listened to are played by those whose musical 
desires have never had the opportunity to ex¬ 
pand until coming here. One young miss of 
fifteen seems to be able to play the harp, al¬ 
though she never owned one below; and the 
fact that she has a harp makes her very happy, 
and she plays it pretty much all the time. No¬ 
body tires of listening, for all is culture, and 
progress is very fast. 

One old man sits by the gate leading into a 
valley where sheep are browsing; he has a 
jew’s-harp and the twang of this jew’s-harp is 
not unlike the sound produced years ago, when 
I first played one at school. 

Well, of this motley assemblage enough has 
been said. You will wonder where they stay 
and if homes are provided, and what they are 
like, and what is the management of such a 
large community, and all about it. 

* * * * 

January 20 , 1917- 

The times are full of interest unparalleled in 
the world’s history. On This Side, we see life 
as it is; our viewpoint is continuous, as our 
sense of continuity is undiminished; we have 
not only that of sight, but of intuition—the 
feeling that goes with comprehension. The 
fact that nothing obstructs the vision is a factor 


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coupled with sense that gives freedom to our 
faculties. 

The war panorama that engages our atten¬ 
tion is a part of every day and night task, for 
we are mobilized for work in companies, by 
tens, by hundreds, by fifties, by thousands; we 
have complete organizations engaged in active 
service. Some of our men are trained to mili¬ 
tary maneuvers; others are learning tactics 
from those in command. This will seem 
strange to you, but you will readily see that we 
are unchanged in the transition of life, and to 
be severed from our tentacles of flesh does not 
impair faculties in the least. In fact, they are 
more alert and ready for whatever there is to 
do. Before the breaking out of the war, most 
people engaged in the discovery of worlds and 
exploration in science, teaching, traveling and 
listening to discourses from teachers unparal¬ 
leled in learning, making observations through 
specially constructed lenses, analyzing light 
spectrums, and making studies of chemistry in 
relation to new scientific discoveries. Botany 
takes much interest, and the Valley of Art at¬ 
tracts numerous painters who take huge can¬ 
vases and tack them to trees, and there they 
sketch for hours. The work accomplished is 
quite beautiful, as here art is unrestricted and 
the supply of material both in the concrete and 
in the abstract is abundant. The mountains 


THE WAR PANORAMA 


59 


stretching about us are veritable symphony 
centers; sound travels better, and certainly the 
music heard at even-time is the sweetest imagi¬ 
nable; for here are the singers of all time, who 
love harmony and who themselves express it. 
But to return to the mobilization of armies and 
to the thought of war in this place beyond the 
Vale of Tears. Here we have the universal 
view-point. Having attained the spirit of im¬ 
mortality, we have let loose the mortal coil 
and that sense of bitterness that is kin to mat¬ 
ter as rust is to iron. 

Whatever may have been our preference 
before we arrived on the plane of present com¬ 
prehension, we are able to define motive and 
hold nations to strict account for violation of 
the laws of humanity. To Germany belongs 
the sword that will turn and pierce her side 
asunder. She has listened to false doctrines 
and has forgotten the laws governing Being. 
And the same law governs both nations and 
iife of individuals which comprise nations. 
“As ye sow, so shall ye reap,” is inevitable in 
its results. As the sower casts the seed in the 
field, reaping his reward in season—so with 
the nation that sows hate, discord, wanton 
murder and rapine, the inevitable disaster re¬ 
turning to destroy that nation will come on the 
wings of the whirlwind from heaven, for we 
are the avengers of men, sent on our mission 


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to heal or to destroy; for “as ye sow, so shall 
ye reap,” is science in the concrete. There is 
no other way for individuals or for nations. 
We are the masters of our fate, the creators of 
our destiny—would that we might bind up the 
bruises of those who suffer mightily!—but the 
whirlwind is let loose and the Demon of War 
must be satisfied until the time of the return 
of the Avenger. 

There is little need of dwelling longer on 
this subject of war, save to say the time is near 
for the capitulation. Would that it might be 
the surrender of bitterness and hatred of the 
kins-people of Europe! For hatred in the land 
is breathed and engendered in life of men and 
animals and in food products, creating much 
distress and famine and contagious disease. 

* * * * 

San Diego, California, 

May 17, 1915. 

This is my preparation for the travel tour 
we are preparing to make—for my spirit, 
winged with yours, produces a multiple of 
spirit and I will give the light I have obtained 
as we proceed on our journey of observation 
with no less vigor than I had, but with an added 
sense of unlimited ability to describe, which my 
tongue sometimes refused coherently to ex¬ 
press, while wearing my coat of flesh. 


THE WAR PANORAMA 61 

I prepare for my journey through ether, a 
luminous garment, floating closely to my form, 
as I move through space. This garment 
radiates light from the shining form it veils. 
This light is mine, and it is the heritage of 
every created soul, placed there by the Creator 
of all life, and is the glory of God revealed in 
the flesh—while in the body, preserved in the 
soul, lighting the spirit in its search for eternal 
Truth. 

You bring with you the luminous veil, when 
you come. Some are more beautiful, showing 
a fine tracery of exquisite design which I am 
told is the crystallized thoughts of its wearer. 
Mine is somewhat common compared to many 
here; I would that I had known in that day of 
my preparation that each of my secret thoughts 
was in the weaver’s shuttle and in the day of 
my advancement would be given to me as the 
adornment of my spirit, made luminous by the 
light of my soul, that all might read the history 
of my preparation. 


CHAPTER X 


JOURNEY THROUGH THE TENUOUS ATMOS¬ 
PHERE—THE TENDER SHEPHERD 

New York City, 
January 28, 1917, J'30 P. M. 
ODAY WE shall take a journey together 



into the near-by regions of space and 


A as we ascend into the ether, I will tell 
you so far as I am able to, of the things pass¬ 
ing my eyes. 

We shall imagine that we are being carried 
along on some vehicle of locomotion; it will 
be easier for you to imagine that, as imagina¬ 
tion often plays quite a part in the success or 
failure of any enterprise whatever—even that 
of an imaginary journey, which in fact is not 
at all imaginary, from my view-point; but from 
your view-point, may be, according to your 
present limited view-point. 

I wish I might convey plainly the fact of 
human personality as it is; for upon this 
premise I could explain why you are not 
imagining what seems to be strictly imagination, 
in the fact that you are quietly writing my 
thoughts telepathically impressed upon the 


THE TENDER SHEPHERD 


63 


retina of your eye, as well as upon that of your 
brain, at the same time synchronizing your 
nerve muscles which have the ability to tran¬ 
scribe it on paper. At the same moment you 
are whirling through space, for your thought 
is you as much as your body is you, and your 
mind becomes cognizant of all that is passing. 
This may sound erratic, because such ideas are 
unfamiliar to most of us unacquainted with the 
human personality. 

Let it be strictly understood that you do not 
exercise abnormal faculties. It is not in my 
province as a scientist to instruct the world in 
the study of esoteric philosophy. The world 
must revolve some time before atmospheric 
changes are sufficient to induce such study with¬ 
out disorganization of brain structure if brought 
in contact with atmosphere charged with the 
vapors of an atmosphere suitable to the tenuous 
forms of life. I do not in any way decry re¬ 
search work or study of secret doctrines, for 
the enlargement of faculty or for the advance¬ 
ment of science,—but I warn people who try to 
bring the two atmospheres together for the 
purpose of investigation for amusement, or for 
entertainment of those who are curious minded. 
This is inharmonious and is not intended for 
those on mortal planes. 

It may be accomplished, but I urge scientists 
not to make investigations along such lines. It 


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is rare that one on This Side will enter into 
negotiation with those whose object it is to en¬ 
trap the unwary. But here, as well as there, 
are those who are curious and anxious to ap¬ 
pear to their friends; but those of us who resort 
to such means are often delayed in our ability 
to ascend into higher realms of activity. 

Psychics do not commonly understand that 
atmospheric conditions are the only barriers to 
sight of the Unseen. This is true. Finally, 
this will gradually change. Within the last few 
years the tenuity of the air has been changed so 
as to render the sense of vibration less difficult; 
with this preamble, we may take our journey 
into the highly tenuous atmosphere. Let us 
turn our thoughts as far away from earth as 
we may, as we ascend into the higher realms 
of space. While we may observe that other 
vehicles occasionally are seen, they are not in 
our own atmosphere. We are enfolded within 
a higher form of vapor, radiating light and ex¬ 
hilaration to all who are privileged to enjoy it. 
Only man’s thought or spirit could enjoy the 
privilege—his soul is already resident of this 
sphere—so you will not feel afraid or un-at* 
home when you at last venture to come alone. 

But now we are traveling fast and I gather 
my robe as my thought, with yours, is eager to 
see what there is of interest. Beyond the hedge 


THE TENDER SHEPHERD 65 

over there on the hillside, I see a man urging 
a little boy to follow him. The little one came 
yesterday—I can tell by his footsteps and by 
his aimless manner. Now the man is taking 
him up in his arms, and beyond, over on the 
Other Side of our tenuous atmosphere, is a 
woman reaching towards this little child with 
eager, outstretched arms—with the disappear¬ 
ance of the man and boy, the woman returns to 
her home, and is quieted. A sense of peace 
comes into her heart. 

The office of the tender shepherd is accom¬ 
plished. Little children always find a tender 
shepherd, and mothers yet to follow their little 
heart-treasures, need not wring their hearts in 
helplessness, for the Angels watch over them. 

You will soon see by observation as we travel 
on, that distance is not measured as you are 
accustomed to measure it below. For Here 
the rapidity of thought is accentuated—we have 
traveled far. Over there in the hazy distance 
is Australia, a most wonderful country, with 
an ideal form of government. Please observe 
the clearness of the atmosphere overhanging 
the island empire. The people of this country 
are peaceful, and the effect of harmony is felt 
even in the stars over their heads. We are now 
nearing Europe. Observe the difference. See 
the streams of gray enveloping the air like 


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clouds of dingy vapor—we hurry past. Up 
higher, we feel glad that our atmosphere is be¬ 
yond the sorrow of war and its bitterness. 

Let us wait by this wicket gate for a moment, 
while the battle rages on the Somme. I dis¬ 
like keeping you here to see the agony of war 
enacted, but your spirit is able to bind up 
bruises—and as we wait here, our compassion 
assuages grief; here is a lad. We are in time 
to help him. 

We are glad to be of service to you—we 
are friends from home, and we are leading you; 
on and on they come. Well, this is the begin¬ 
ning of real work. Let me aid you—just keep 
your balance, while I touch the lad’s corsage. 
He has dropped his sword, never again to use 
it, praise Heaven! Let us go—we are among 
so many ascending spirits; we are guiding them 
and helping them. You are not afraid. Your 
spirit is helping them with the courage you have 
acquired in your life of victory. Others are 
coming for these boys in white—we shall meet 
them again, for the organization of this world 
is most perfect; and having met and greeted, we 
shall see them again. 

The sky is ablaze with the lights of suns and 
stars. We see in passing they are inhabited. 
Creation is very old. Space is illimitable. Our 
Earth is a dot in space. You tremble at im¬ 
mensity. Over there in the purple mist is Mars. 


THE TENDER SHEPHERD 


67 


You have watched the Red Star from your 
doorstep. Notice the temples devoted to art, 
and the volume of sound that issues from the 
cathedrals. 

Many of the Martians are untaught; as 
hewers of wood and carriers of water still exist 
wherever life is found. 

Those stars in the distance are void of life, 
having swung out of the life atmosphere. 
Saturn and Antares are among them. Many 
caves abound, and some are quaint in jewels— 
very rare, as we count precious gems. 

Over there, by the side of the Euphrates 
river, was the Garden of Eden—see the little 
plot of green—where our first parents stumbled 
for their disobedience. How little we under¬ 
stand the vehicles of speech, and how blindly 
we go about, leading the blind.” 

On our return to our own habitations, yours 
in a corner of a great city, encircled by tall 
buildings and walls of stone, within the shelter 
of four walls and under the radiance of the 
pink glow of the evening lamp, and I to my 
mansion in the sky, eternal in the heavens, “that 
fadeth not away”;—come for a moment and 
meet my friends gathered here for a visit. The 
balcony is my den. There, under the violet 
dome of brass is a collection of gems I have 
been gathering in my walks. The paths are 
full of them. Those I have for my dome are 



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really very fine specimens of bellum amethysts. 
Most of it was deeply imbedded in rock. This 
stick in the corner came from Babylon, by the 
river we passed this afternoon, and contains 
some hieroglyphic history a friend of mine is 
able to decipher. 

This window overlooking the garden is 
where I sit while making my charts of explora¬ 
tion, and where I often gather the children for 
a study in nature. Here is a cobweb of silken 
mist; there in the corner is the spider—prob¬ 
ably has noticed a stranger, and thinks to run. 
Animals, insects, birds and fishes are not blind 
to tenuous atmosphere—even this little grass¬ 
hopper on my rose trellis would take note of 
an adventurous Ghost from the Other Side. 

This is the mint of my vintage, and my 
friends often take a sip—as a humming bird 
drinks dew from a lily cup. 

We are creatures of habit, and, as the host, 
I enjoy offering my friends the hospitality of 
our home, simply good fellowship, complimen¬ 
tary to our understanding of social forms and 
so forth. This is bread. Its whiteness is like 
that of manna in Pharaoh’s time, and it comes 
in the same fashion. Taste it? You recognize 
the faint sweetness. 

Here are the boys in from a romp. These 
are William, Henry, Albert and Ambrose. We 
adopted four—you see, we like to have plenty 


THE TENDER SHEPHERD 


69 


of youngsters about. They have organized a 
company and each evening they employ their 
time in drilling for service; for the armies here 
are mobilized and new recruits are added every 
day. 

I am busy, myself, in helping Lloyd George, 
and the time is here for active service. Do you 
hear the thum-thum of the drums?—the ex¬ 
citement is contagious—time is up. 


CHAPTER XI 


MESSAGE TO THE MOTHERS OF THE RACE 

February 7, /p/7• 

T HE LINE OF thought I wish to follow 
tonight is that of Preparedness. It is 
the essential thing in life, not only that 
of nations, but of individuals. 

The fact of our existence is a thing beyond 
our comprehension. When a babe is born, the 
mother does not often enter into analytical 
thought concerning the destiny that caused his 
initiatory existence, neither does she often stop 
to think why he came and seldom extends her 
thought to where he is going after he leaves 
the Birth Planet. She leaves this to circum¬ 
stance—I am not censoring mothers—God for¬ 
bid ! But from my extended viewpoint, I have 
gained some knowledge of life, and its Purpose 
far in advance of my former knowledge. 

To the mothers of the race, I am speaking 
tonight. I am the living soul of a mortal body 
now passed into disuse. What I am every soul 
will become in time. It is true that I am disen¬ 
gaged from mortal activities, so far as the 
world material is concerned, but when my 
mother gave birth to a child, she gave to the 


MESSAGE TO THE MOTHERS OF THE RACE 71 

Universal Creation the highest form of crea¬ 
tion—a man in embryo, imprinted with a stamp 
indelible. As to feature, race or nation, it mat¬ 
ters little where I was born. The hut thatched 
and poor may usher its children into a palatial 
life. The future of the child is not determined 
so much by its environment, as by the thoughts 
and purposes of those who brought it into the 
world—if little or no thought is given to 
shaping the soul of the embryonic man, he be¬ 
comes absorbed by whatever is given him for 
mental food—it is not necessary that mothers 
or guardians of the young should use the spoken 
or the vibrant voice. It is often better to speak 
in the silence, for tone sometimes absorbs 
thought and the intent is lost in bewilderment. 

As love is felt in the presence of the home, 
and those inmates who feel it bask in its radi¬ 
ance and energize as plants in the sunshine, 
growing into the full capacity of Being, so does 
hate or strife cripple and maim life and growth, 
like shadows in stale pools of unmoved waters. 
This is not hyperbole. It is Truth, faintly ex¬ 
pressed. 

Life in its relation to futurity should be the 
study of mankind. Various institutions of 
learning are abridging knowledge in adhering 
to doctrinal disputes in regard to what they 
please to call religious belief. In all kindness, 
I urge teachers and professors in schools and 



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higher branches of educational work to dis¬ 
organize branches where there is the ordinary 
theological stumbling block of debate. 

Science and theology are related, relatively 
simple as grounds of a common universal knowl¬ 
edge. Educators often stamp themselves 
atheistic on general principles, which opposes 
religion, commonly on moral grounds, believ¬ 
ing that religion introduces a higher moral 
standard than that of science. In the essential, 
both religion and science are scientific, operated 
by exact laws, simultaneously with each other. 
To avoid one, is to become crushed by the 
other; as the laws of the Universe work in rela¬ 
tive correspondence, each expressing that for 
which it was originally set in operation. 

The belief of the individual is not essential 
to the working or to the enactment of the law, 
so far as the law in regard to its effect is con¬ 
cerned. The sun revolves on its orbit whether 
I believe it or not. This is of no moment to 
the sun, but it is of vast importance to me, if 
I place myself as a barrier to the movement of 
the sun, I would be hurled to atoms in my futile 
attempt. To disbelieve what is unseen or un¬ 
known is radically foolish and does not in any 
sense excuse one from ignorance. I am writ¬ 
ing as one who has gained his experience on the 
Other Side of life—to be imparted to those 
who have not given Life serious consideration, 


MESSAGE TO THE MOTHERS OF THE RACE 73 

owing to lack of knowledge in regard to its 
continuity, believing that after death there will 
be no further use for the mind. 

With the absolute knowledge of the Contin¬ 
uity of Life stamped on the individual mind, 
there will be a quickened impulse to command 
our forces, using them to broaden our under¬ 
standing in our relation to home and to the 
social world in which we move, making society 
more suitable and habitable for the men and 
women contributing to its functions. 

In my wish to impress upon the student the 
imperative need of beginning the study of This 
Side of life by taking up the work in its initial 
stage—on the material plane of being—for as 
I have said before, Life is one existence before 
and after the great change. Simply your eyes 
are not attuned to tenuous matter, although 
your material body may sense it, and your soul 
explore without difficulty, remote distances. 

The object of this chapter is to direct the 
mind to the consideration of Life in the child; 
within its delicate organism is a complete crea¬ 
tion. The Creator designed this jewel for the 
habitation of Eternal Existence in this world 
now, and by and by in a Universal World, be¬ 
yond the comprehension of the mind at the 
earth-stage of development. However, the 
creation is perfect, unless abnormality has in¬ 
terrupted the creative process. The brain cells 



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contain the full cells for the cycle of life in 
uninterrupted creation. Man dwarfs his knowl¬ 
edge by not using to his capacity, his God-given 
implement of knowledge. For, within his own 
organism is resident full knowledge of Man, 
of Life, of Creation, of Destiny, Purpose, 
Action, Wisdom, etc. For Man contains in 
embryo the complete creation, awaiting devel¬ 
opment under his own masterful direction. 


CHAPTER XII 


THE MINISTRY OF HEAVEN: OCCUPATION, 

ETC. 

New York City, 
February g } 1917- 

T HESE ARE epoch-making days both in 
the material and the spiritual universe—• 
the two are so closely blended as you 
apprehend. The mind is bathed in the ether 
of one, while the physical body receives nourish¬ 
ment from the other; both the mind and body 
are sustained by relative correspondence. 

That which engages the public mind is inci¬ 
dental to that which the observer notes on This 
Side of the border. This is the point of prog¬ 
ress for the ongoing thousands entering Eter¬ 
nity; system is found at every port of entry; 
absolute system under the dominion of laws 
built when the system of planetary creation 
evolved from chaotic nebulae into form under 
the control of the Omnipotent Power which we 
designate as God. 

The laws are invisible but become a part of 
the student body curriculum. This is not arbi¬ 
trary. 


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The mind clothed in the desires it brings 
readily absorbs whatever naturally belongs 
specially to its province, receiving therefore 
classification essentially to its choice. You will 
observe how varied are the classifications and 
how great the field of preference. There is 
nothing arbitrary and no compulsion or en¬ 
forcement of laws—no laws broken—strict 
compliance with law as it is. 

I do not intend to convey the idea that all 
are on the same level after having crossed the 
border of experience, but rather hope to make 
clear that what the soul brings of its attain¬ 
ments and culture while on the Birth Plane 
entitles that soul to its classification here; what¬ 
ever that may be is established in the soul itself. 
His bar of judgment lies within himself. No 
accuser waits to condemn him. The veil that 
has obscured his vision of reality is gone. He 
observes his life as it is; he begins at once his 
work of restitution—sometimes from a very 
low plane. The eagerness of his desire accel¬ 
erates his rise to higher planes. 

There are numerous arrivals hourly when 
canvass is eagerly made for pleasure jaunts and 
for cards and for financial speculation. These 
scenes are daily panoramic—going and coming 
—before the eyes of those whose life absorbed 
such pursuits. 

The immensity of space invites exploration, 




THE MINISTRY OF HEAVEN 77 

and after a while the earth soul becomes disen¬ 
thralled and reaches through desire to higher 
levels. 

The world here is actively engaged in ex¬ 
ploration of space and discoverers are making 
charts of new systems of worlds, some of which 
have tenuous air valves; scientists are much in¬ 
terested in applying theories of invention. 

Geologists are finding some new specimens 
of ore, resembling oxide of potassium, having 
as a base several carbonates containing stalac¬ 
tites of unusual brilliancy and color deeply 
shading into maroon. 

Women come with baskets on their arms and 
gather up gems as one might pick whortleber¬ 
ries in a swamp; some of them pave garden 
walks, and others make chains, while others are 
distributed along paths leading in directions 
where more may be found. 

We become interior decorators after our own 
fashion, as everything is obtained for the 
searching. The nurses are making a salve and 
the battlefields are full of these gentle sisters 
administering to the wounded, no one is idle; 
reports are eagerly sought. Ships in disas¬ 
ter are signaled and many escape through our 
intervention. Life-boats are kept afloat by 
those who go down to the waters to save boats, 
for many must not journey hence until life work 
there be accomplished. Those who come re- 


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ceive the Life Certificate, the victory over 
death. 

The cycle changes. Indications fraught with 
powerful influences in Europe, betray a deep 
unrest in the heart of the people downtrodden 
and suppressed by false traditions; their eyes 
are opening to the depth of infamy disaster has 
supplied. The crucial test must be applied— 
dynasties must fall. 


CHAPTER XIII 


THE PLANETARY BALANCE 

February io, igiy. 

T HE INTEREST of the world at this 
moment transcends that of any time since 
the beginning of creation, when worlds 
were hurled into space and empires were formed 
according to their several planetary locations 
and nations arose and divided and subdivided 
and fought for preeminence among other na¬ 
tions. Nations subscribe arbitrarily to un¬ 
written laws governing equilibrium, or balance, 
as written on the scales of planetary balance in 
the creative policies so wonderful in contem¬ 
plation. 

The work of creation involved the curriculum 
of universal knowledge in the application of 
higher mathematics, designed by Omnipotence 
to apply to all creation, bringing all together in 
harmonic relations as a whole creation. Calcu¬ 
lus explains in part, in miniature, the process 
correlating under one common denominator, 
which includes in world processes of enumera¬ 
tion, geologic resistance, water pressure, gas 
expansion, mineral contraction and expansion, 


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vegetable, mineral and animal creation, and 
inhibitory processes which must be included in 
the analysis. 

The effect of magnetic attraction and deflec¬ 
tion caused by other heavenly bodies in contra¬ 
distinction to our own has entered into the 
geometric calculation, in order to establish the 
system of worlds and the motor enginery of 
propelling them through space. There are 
people living on the Birth Planet today who 
proudly affirm that all this came by chance in 
the ordinary event of creation. 

People become austere through the posses¬ 
sion of worldly goods and honors conferred 
on them by state or nation, and believe them¬ 
selves to belong to some higher order of crea¬ 
tion yet to be awarded kingship—with this 
erroneous thought, self becomes highly magni¬ 
fied—the Creator is the nominal ruler only. 
The minds of the people become the ruling 
minds of the nation embodied in the governor¬ 
ship of king or emperor or ruler of whatsoever 
kind of administrative government. That the 
invisible reign of law includes the personality, 
all must admit, for we are made of the dust 
and with it we must return—I am now speak¬ 
ing of the material universe inhabited by co¬ 
ordinate beings—under the dominion of the 
universal laws governing planetary life and 
action. Heretofore man has not included him- 




THE PLANETARY BALANCE 81 

self in such laws to very great extent—but he 
has to such extent as to bring his home, his 
town, his city or nation into revolt with the 
system employed by the Master Builder of law 
and nations. Man is magnetic—he is born of 
dust, but “his brow is a searcher in the heavens, 
while his feet cleave to earth.” Was it not the 
Concord sage who made this affirmation? 

Ideas in multiform cause elation, depression, 
or loss of power. Either is within control 
of multiple of mind. Germany, staggering 
through the last century under the delusion of 
the greatness of her learning—and her advance 
in civilization—departed from belief in truth, 
swinging out of coordination with Law, blindly 
entering a war that must now go on until jus¬ 
tice becomes established, regardless of conse¬ 
quences. 

That other nations must suffer is natural to 
suppose. The correlation of empires of states, 
includes world’s people, all brought out of poise 
apart from coordination, out of orbits centrifu- 
gally, out of balance, endangering life and 
health. The magnetic attraction of bodies in 
coordination keep together, it is true, and when 
equality of balance is regained and harmony 
reigns, the world will have regained control of 
its path through the stars, clarified of greed 
to great extent, continuing its whirl through 
space with added souls watching for the dawn 




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of peace eternal in the heavens. Earth is a 
good place to live in—but the real life is here. 
Earth is the type, the experimental stage. You 
know exactly what is meant by experience so 
far as you have lived. There you are the ap¬ 
prentice to your own soul—here you are the 
promoted individual. Nothing is left behind 
you worth anything. Gold you could not use 
if you brought it here—Love is the coin of ex¬ 
change that you will bring with you. Bring 
all of your soul treasures—you will need them, 
your culture, your love of art, of music—all 
this you will use. “All things shall be given 
unto thee.” Every want shall be satisfied. 
Material possessions you will not need. 


CHAPTER XIV 


THE SHINING LIGHTS OF HEAVEN 


February n, igiy. 


HE avenues of the ethereal spaces invite 



adventure tonight. The light of day 


adorns the trysting places.—For night, 
in relation to darkness, is unknown here. The 
radiance of light emanates from Being. We 
are all radiant indeed, in our veils of white, 
through which the radiance of our tenuous 
being flames forth a silvery light known as the 
Astral light. 

We are undisguised, for on our foreheads 
is the insignia of whatever we have gained in 
culture, love for humanity, charity, selflessness, 
energy and force, ambitions for the sake of 
others—all this is here waiting for us when we 
are given our place in Heaven. For surely we 
are given our Price, our Wage, whatever we 
have earned during our years of apprenticeship. 

Here run the rivers we love so well in 
Heaven. The atmosphere so full of joy. It is 
Love that fills us to the height of adoration. 
The rivers, the light, the avenues, the work to 
do, the singing of the little ones by the way, 


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the harmony, the grace of culture, the galleries 
of art—those masters of fame whose life work 
is left for those who have not yet attained. 
All this that I endeavor feebly to express is a 
part of our every-day experience. 

The light that differentiates the hours from 
those of morning and night is tinted with amber, 
or light blue, gently diffusing through space 
golden glints of subdued light. 

The index on our brow is not arbitrarily 
placed. We receive no stamp—the voice of 
Guardian Angel is unheard to say, come here, 
or go there. We, ourselves, do not see our own 
life index. The mark on our foreheads comes 
as our way we tread, looking for home or 
friends. The music, the light, the happiness we 
breathe, imparts to the new-comer great exhil¬ 
aration—we are often unconscious of the 
change, as the blending of the seasons, the ad¬ 
vance and the ebbing of the tide, the change of 
day into radiant twilight—so is the afterglow 
of the Life Transcendent. 

To those of us who have attained and have 
found a way of expression, to those yet on the 
way up the Mountain of Experience, those who 
are bringing their sheaves, I wish most pro¬ 
foundly to call halt, examine your treasures, 
look over your store of hoardings you are 
freighting to the unknown port. What you are 



THE SHINING LIGHTS OF HEAVEN 85 

bringing with you will be given to you for your 
inheritance—is here already, waiting for you. 
This is not religion, apart from science. It is 
written down in the Law of Human Life.—You 
find whatever you search after.—In all the cate¬ 
gory of experience, you gain what you are 
searching after—in literature, in art, knowl¬ 
edge, science, invention, love—attainment in cul¬ 
ture, wisdom, riches or treasure, selfishness, etc. 
All is accorded you. The spiritual embodiment 
of your life work is your treasure in Heaven, 
those laid up by yourself, your treasures, your 
mansion, your reward for all you have done on 
the Earth Plane is laid up by yourself for your¬ 
self when at last you attain your reward for 
deeds done in the body. No arbitrary avenging 
angel awaits you. Creation afforded you in the 
beginning the implements of industrious labor 
to satisfy the craving of hunger of the body, 
and for the satisfaction of the soul. Within 
your complex organism the Creator placed a 
guide—your passport through the world and 
through eternity. 

As the stars travel through space held within 
the confines of creation by laws inviolable— 
so man travels through his environment holding 
within himself the law of Being, the inexorable 
law of life which is continuous and masterful. 
He is himself the sovereign of his destiny, the 
master of his fate. Created in the Image of 



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God, he is the Son of the Most High. Lighted 
by the lamp of conscience, he builds an empire 
within himself; his lordly possessions reach 
within to Infinitude; without are limitations of 
the physical—arrested at dissolution—no longer 
of use, returning into space through evapora¬ 
tion. Why has man proceeded so far on his way 
without recognition of his destiny, his inheri¬ 
tance with the eternal nature of things? His 
vista of mind has encircled the globe; he reaches 
out and girdles the earth with the strength of 
his thought—he speaks through the wind and 
his spoken word travels through spaces unhar¬ 
nessed by lines of travel. He rides the air and 
under the sea—he reads fates of nations in the 
stars—he subscribes to futurity the records of 
marvelous achievements, but of that which lies 
within himself, deeply imbedded within his inner 
life chambers, he wots not. 

He does not understand that within are charts 
containing directions for his feet. 

As if by chance he might forget 
The way led upward to the Light 
And traveled far; 

Then lost in fog of doubt, 

Confused, 

And in the uncertainty mistake 

The shifting day 

For breakers on the way. 



CHAPTER XV 


MULTIPLE MIND—THE BIRTH OF AN IDEA 

T HE process of analysis introducingphases 
of life aside from that of exterior de¬ 
ductions, is extremely interesting to the 
student who is a searcher after truth. In this 
respect, analytical diagnosis is just beyond the 
veil of material sight—I may tell you of sights 
and scenes about me, describing journeys and 
painting for you the colors of flowers, and 
where to find hidden treasures, and all this. 
But to come to you with a strictly scientific analy¬ 
sis of the demonstration of laws beyond the 
plane of the ordinary mind, is evidence of my 
assertion of the continuity of life, as demon¬ 
strated in the substantial evidence of the correla¬ 
tion of parts of mind. 

The mind of the student who reads this work 
and that of the mind that expounds the Truth 
in reference to the inexplicable demonstrations 
of Truth, combine in elucidation of the problem. 
The two brains in correlation make the multiple 
mind, the unit of mind, the whole mind. Your 
mind in conjunction with my mind, or that of 
some other mind on a similar plane, is necessary 


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in order to maintain equilibrium of mind. We 
are now in a color-tone susceptible of a very 
high vibratory tension. Your vibratory tone is 
dense compared with mine, in a higher tenuous 
form. The difference in tenuous vibration and 
that of oracular, is adjusted by a curious process 
of physics, calculated to balance evenly the two 
minds in correlation. Absolute harmony of 
thought is the natural result. One thought 
form merges into other thought forms as the 
process of law develops. My brain pours into 
your brain, and in turn your brain ushers into 
mine the gray-matter substance converted into 
thought waves in correlation with those of 
mine. The law is now in operation. You have 
the ability to think the thoughts of God, after 
Him, in conformance to this law—your mind 
is therefore the mind of a god, analytical— 
powerful. 

Men of powerful inventive genius such as 
Edison, have reached out in thought, in explora¬ 
tion of the unseen, and coupled with laws of 
correlation, unwittingly giving to the world 
secrets found in the brain of one advanced to 
the place of higher correlative thought. All 
advancement is made in this way, whatever that 
advancement may be, science discovery, inven¬ 
tion. The unit of mind, the whole mind, creates 
the form created—a birth of an idea is ready 
for presentation to the world. 




THE BIRTH OF AN IDEA 


89 


Truth is always established in this way, 
Christ’s declaration of the lifted Christ draw¬ 
ing all men, is typical of the elimination of false 
belief,—the magnetic attraction of Truth. The 
Serpent in the Wilderness is the same type of 
salvation through contact with Truth. 

In this very manner will belief in the immor¬ 
tality of the soul receive confirmation. Man 
has within himself the power of correlation 
with Truth, which is the scientific demonstra¬ 
tion of Truth capable of verification through 
experiments with concrete, and therefore justi¬ 
fied in the abstract, as well as law, is unfailing 
in its demonstration whenever set in motion. 
Therefore, to return to my premise, I regard 
the war as highly constructive inasmuch as much 
that what is false in belief will necessarily be 
eliminated from the minds of people out of 
correlation. Falsity vanishes when beaten or 
whipped out of power, there is no rock of 
defense; it simply evaporates as poisonous mind 
product, leaving Truth in the ascendent. There 
is no middle ground. Truth in the concrete is 
firm in fundamental structure. 

Therefore, if you will kindly return to the 
introduction of this primary law, established 
between the lower and the higher tentacles of 
space, you will observe more minutely my mean¬ 
ing when I endeavor to point out the cause of 
this most unjust and unholy war in which the 


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material will is in universal combat with the 
physical forces in correlation with the invisible 
world; that this unseen world should enter into 
correlation with the world engaged in mortal 
combat, is essential to the re-establishment of 
Truth, the elimination of false belief and the 
re-establishment of harmony, which is the plane¬ 
tary path which keeps in motion the stars and 
the worlds swinging through space. 

The world conflict deflects the planetary sys¬ 
tem, causing in turn volcanic action, tidal waves, 
fires, earthquakes, and so forth. That this 
statement is true, may be verified by correlation 
of thought, by the student who strives to obtain 
Truth direct. “Ye shall know the truth, and 
the Truth shall make you free,” is the most 
powerful utterance of Divinity. 

None but God had measured the truth of this 
statement and the ages have come and gone— 
centuries have wrapped themselves within the 
folds of Infinitude and crept away in the 
shadows and still the thought of man has not 
grasped the truth of this statement. 

The Nineteenth Century dawned and slipped 
within the heart of the Twentieth, and still man 
is unthinkingly wandering about in his swad¬ 
dling clothes of ignorance. 

This prophecy is now fulfilled—the peoples 
of the world emerging from the greatest war in 
the history of creation must needs throw off 


THE BIRTH OF AN IDEA 


91 


the mask of false teachings and lift up its face 
unto the hills whence cometh help. 

The emancipation of the world typifies that 
scriptural new world where falsity will drop 
away like a garment and Truth will remain in 
transcendent beauty. Harmony will be the new 
Heaven. The old earth of bitterness will be 
revivified by the Spirit of Love and Devotion. 


CHAPTER XVI 


THE ELEMENTAL DISASTER 

New York City, 
February 14 , 1917- 


HE thought uppermost in my mind to¬ 



night is that of the warring nations. We 


are so closely connected with life in both 
planes that when thought is concentrated on 
one particular subject, we are magnetically 
drawn to the same thought and mingle our 
thoughts with yours. These thoughts might 
easily be read by those who cultivated their 
sense of receptivity. The waters are exceed¬ 
ingly angry. The air about us is becoming more 
and more clouded. This is partly the apprehen¬ 
sion of the people, as the situation becomes 
more tense. The conflict in the sea seems to 
be one of riotous savagery. People are swiftly 
leaving steamers and finding refuge in life-boats. 
Others recede and are lost to sight for a few 
moments. Many are wafting hither. Some 
little ones are clinging to mothers’ skirts and 
some families come together. Many aged 
people, also. With them are guides, whose 
duty it is to conduct them—all seem happy. 


THE ELEMENTAL DISASTER 93 

Many do not know where they are. Some 
think they have arrived at some foreign port— 
with you lies the tragedy of death—with us 
the happy awakening. 

* * * * 

February 20, IQIJ. 

The world having set in motion forces that 
are tremendous in action, cannot control what 
has become a universal conglomerate of action, 
enveloping not only the earth itself, but the at¬ 
mosphere surrounding the globe. 

Every known living thing is absorbing the 
elemental disaster. The human family are not 
the only sufferers; the brute creation, the animal 
kingdom, the winged creatures, the mineral and 
vegetable creation inhale and exhale the poison 
generated by hate. The Innocent must suffer. 
As the strife generated in the heart of those in 
high places, where culture and wealth, invention 
and ingenuity brought great riches, the mind of 
that ruler became imbued with the desire for 
greater influence, for more territory, for world 
power! His barns were full to repletion. The 
laws governing nations, he could overrule with 
his great power. He did not estimate the 
strength of the invisible laws under whose do¬ 
minion he labored; thus, in his madness he 
struck the blow that toppled over the pinnacle 
of fame under which he stands today, committed 
to justice. The world shook at the dastard 


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blow. Out of poise she travels through space, 
the stars shining obliquely in their gazing. 
There are other laws standing sentinel to those 
of justice. Out of the shadows comes the law 
of compensation and this law is upholding the 
arms of England and France—sustaining Bel¬ 
gium, strengthening and inspiring armies for 
the defense of justice. Compensation is un¬ 
yielding in its demand. Justice must be satis¬ 
fied, is written on her banners flung in the face 
of all civilized nations. 

Arouse ye, men of civilization! It is not for 
the control of one nation nor for the rage of 
mortal man. The world calls for justice— 
peace, peace!—the world calls loudly for peace. 
When there is no peace, justice must be satisfied, 
and in the eternal nature of things, the world 
will be purified as by fire. This is compensation. 
You are fighting for justice. 

This happy awakening is undisturbed by vis¬ 
ions of unreality. Life unfolds from the devel¬ 
oped soul into the consciousness of a new experi¬ 
ence vastly different from any hitherto known. 
The degree of apprehension of the new life is 
commensurate to the preparation made while 
in the flesh. The perfect flower, the form and 
texture grew into its loveliness through the prep¬ 
aration of culture for its peculiar and essential 
need. This preparation is the divine defense 
from the vegetable to the animal kingdom and 



THE ELEMENTAL DISASTER 


95 


beyond, to man, to his habitation, his empire, 
his country. You will see that this is logical. 
The United States lacks defense. The long 
years of peace have introduced a peaceable race. 
The peace-loving peoples of the world have 
flocked to America. The tactics of war have 
been neglected. Boys have been taught to abhor 
war and to keep the sword within the scabbard 
—a thing of historical interest to adorn the wall 
of some patriotic descendant. The nation has 
become effeminate, highly civilized, educated 
refined, cultured in philosophy and eminently 
classical—rich in science and invention. Peace 
has made this possible. The warlike nations 
do not evolve, only in extension of empire, never 
on higher planes. So, in contributing to the 
culture of world forces, the United States has 
declined in heroic ambitions, as a body politic. 
The organism is not military, save a highly deci¬ 
mated part. Military leaders are in the minor¬ 
ity. There is no lack of patriotic fervor, but 
there is a great lack of patriotic power. 

Since the days of Washington and Lincoln, 
the physical fibre of the human race has be¬ 
come enervated. Men have become softened 
by the life of ease, by non-resistance to climat¬ 
ic conditions. Living in steam-heated houses 
—sitting in the lap of luxury—results in ultra 
conditions, the opposite of which are contrary 
to expediency. Patriotic zeal is there, but 





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bodily tissue is not able to subscribe to the ex- 
actments of war. God pity the people remote 
from the elements. The Garden of Eden was 
the ideal dwelling for man. Man is a season¬ 
able creature, designed by the creator to live 
in the open fields. Habits of luxury have in¬ 
ured him to ease and to warmth, because his 
powers of resistance have become less and less 
as civilization has brought him greater con¬ 
veniences, which he has used so long that with¬ 
out these ends to comfort, his physical organiza¬ 
tion would perish in either extreme; moreover 
he has placed his thoughts in defense of his 
position and no strong fleet or army stands be¬ 
tween him and the enraged invader. Behold 
the preparedness of animal creation. Man, the 
highest of the animal kingdom, has sacrificed 
his coat of armor, his ability to fight the ele¬ 
ments and in so doing has lessened his powers 
of resistance. Thus he invariably reaches to 
his level in the inevitable struggle for suprem¬ 
acy in the world, for he is the master of his 
fate, the creator of his destiny. The race will 
be to the swift and to the strong. The con¬ 
flict will be a bitter one, but the end will be a 
victory over maladjustment of life forces and 
the disintegrating process is necessary in the 
establishment of harmonic relationships in na¬ 
tions. 

As in all phases of life, the weak suffer with 


THE ELEMENTAL DISASTER 97 

the strong, the right with the wrong; this in¬ 
troduces a subtle reasoning that must be fol¬ 
lowed minutely and with exceeding painstaking 
thought, for it lies deep within the enlightened 
consciousness of the student of life forces in re¬ 
lation to extraneous forces correlating to those 
deeply imbedded within the human personality. 
In exact balance, according to the ratio of 
weights, determined by unseen but universal 
laws. 

The Bible is full of references to the subject 
referred to. 


CHAPTER XVII 


IiF A MAN DIE SHALL HE LIVE AGAIN? 


New York City ; 
February 16, 1917- 



IVIL law is subject to discussion through 


arbitration pro and con. The best 


expert readers of law are secured to win 
the suit. It may be won by eloquence, or by 
failure to interpret the law, according to the 
statute books. Sometimes writers of law 
leave flaw-holes, crevices, capable of cleavage. 
Adroit lawyers sometimes take advantage, un¬ 
der cover of the law, to enrich their coffers, 
or to win plaudits from the most favored 
client. Juries often decide cases—there may 
be absolute justice accomplished and the guilty 
suffer; more often such is not the case, as the 
majority of my readers will affirm. 

The subject I am about to lecture on this 
evening is analogous to the subject under con¬ 
sideration, viz., a point in law to be settled by 
arbitration. 

The argument will be presented by one who 
has read Civil Law and who has conformed to 
its statutes during the period of his activity 



IF A MAN DIE SHALL HE LIVE AGAIN? 99 

within the confines of materiality. During the 
years of his promotion to the Other Side of 
Life, the defendant has gained somewhat of 
knowledge in advance of the present time, and 
is prepared now to demonstrate by argument 
against argument, presented before the bar of 
justice in contradiction to any civil law exponent, 
who is prepared to enter the field controversy 
in regard to the question of Life Eternal. 

I am more of a scientist than I am a lawyer 
and my thesis must be presented to the people 
in plain, intelligible type, that he who runs may 
read. For this is the first time in the history 
of the Universe that a challenge has been is¬ 
sued from out the tenuous world of space in 
which immortal life extends to regions beyond 
the power of mortal mind to contemplate, to 
the earth plane where millions are asking the 
question that must now be answered in a way 
that is convincing to the individual soul that is 
searching for truth. If a man die, shall he live 
again ? 

First, the man does not die, for he is an im¬ 
mortal soul. You say this statement is theo¬ 
retical—prove it; tell me what life is. You 
affirm that you do not know. Is it electrical? 

Physicians have demonstrated the body com¬ 
pound and assert that it is dissoluble matter, 
and soon evaporates and disintegrates. It is 
matter built into most delicate tissue, through 


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which it functions through initial activities. Is 
the soul able to rehabilitate itself after its in¬ 
itial dishabilament, in casting aside its flesh? 
It is clothed in immortality. When does the 
soul gather unto itself its garment of immortali¬ 
ty? When life is given to the babe, the robe of 
immortality is the gift of God, indicative of 
kingship. 

How may we know that what you say is true? 

This may be revealed through the gift of the 
Holy Spirit. Seek, and ye shall find. 

But I cannot believe that which my eyes 
cannot see or my hands feel. Granted, then; to 
supplement this need of materiality, God has es¬ 
tablished a route of demarkation to such as 
travel according to sight and touch. This 
route reaches through space; well worn is the 
path, for the thought of man leaves grooves 
in the aeons of space; the path is easy of ac¬ 
cess to those who feign would travel therein. 
This is Faith. Paul called it “my shield and 
buckler.” The world needs it today. “Your 
eyes cannot see nor your hands touch.” 

Think a moment of what I am about to say. 
Where are you standing this moment? If on 
the street, what do you see? As far as your 
eyesight reaches—or a field-glass aids the vision 
—what is beyond, travel demonstrates. All 
this is obvious. Atmospheric conditions ren¬ 
der the air invisible to eyes attenuated to 





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IF A MAN DIE SHALL HE LIVE AGAIN? 101 

earth vibrations; eyes, however, are not the 
only organs of sense. Intuitions often apprise 
us of the approach of one attenuated to higher 
vibratory life. This is sense, and is capable of 
accurate analysis. 

Touch is invitable, for we move within each 
other’s spheres incognito. Much is apprehend¬ 
ed that escapes comprehension, for lack of en¬ 
larged cellular development. This brain cul¬ 
ture must be from within. All culture is ob¬ 
tained through development of special brain 
cells adapted to certain phases of culture. The 
artist who is searching for tints expressive of 
sunsets does not wish them mingled with archi¬ 
tectural designs or aerial charts—neither does 
the statesman care for inventions of electricity 
to interfere with his politics. 

The highly organized brain has enough ca¬ 
pacity for the use of the individual soul during 
the term of its immortal existence through the 
ages of time extending into infinitude. 

Man’s opportunity is abridged because of his 
misunderstanding of himself as an immortal en¬ 
tity. His plan has been to die with his body. 
The shadowy lights thrown on the screen, giving 
him glimpses of the hereafter, have not been 
sufficiently intelligible as to satisfy his cravings 
for knowledge. Nor is it at all strange— 
the fact that man is still searching for Truth 


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is evidence t'hat Truth has not yet appeared to 
his expectant mind. The lover when he finds 
his mate, is satisfied—the heart is at rest—love 
knows its own. This is prima facie evidence of 
the fact that love has been found. 

When Truth dawns on the world in all her 
beauty, then shall the mind of man be satisfied, 
because the receptivity of Truth will come to 
occupy the soul of man still waiting for Truth. 
This is prima facie evidence. When Truth is 
received, then shall the heart of man be satis¬ 
fied, for it shall then see its last endowment of 
culture and become the unit of soul, perfect as 
the man, Christ Jesus. “Ye shall know the 
truth and the truth shall make you free.” 


CHAPTER XVIII 


THE FAMILY UNIT 


New York City, 
February 18, 1917 . 


HOSE who object to the occasional Scrip¬ 



ture quotation, must be resigned to their 


fate—there is no middle ground. I 
cannot lecture on immortality from these celes¬ 
tial heights without the Word of God in my 
heart and on my lips. From Him I received 
my immortal spirit, and to Him I owe my alle¬ 
giance. From Him I received my inheritance 
of culture—what little I possess. To those who 
are hungering for the truth, I would be a das¬ 
tard to withhold what I know to satisfy a crim¬ 
inal desire for ignorance of truth in the atheistic 
or infidel mind. 

What I say, I say clearly. I am not here 
to employ ambiguous language or technical 
terms in describing a life inhabiting two sides 
of existence. Please take note, I say a life in¬ 
habiting two sides of existence. 

There have been no changes in creation of 
the human family. This is the ordained crea¬ 
tion of man. The old doctrinal idea that at 


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death a new body containing new sets of facul¬ 
ties, was given us, is erroneous. 

God’s creation of man was complete in the 
beginning without interruption. Man proceeds 
into his complete existence at the termination of 
his career here, going back as a developed 
soul, wearing his robe of immortality, the pre¬ 
cious gift he brought with him through his 
mother’s soul. Thus are family ties holy and 
sacred in their unity. This is why the children 
cling more to mother—may I say to mother¬ 
hood : Guard your immortal souls, for into life 
goes the babe, wrapped within the folds of your 
spirit. Keep motherhood holy. 

The curious mind has developed a phantasy 
for exploring the tenuous atmosphere connect¬ 
ing the sphere above. 

Inquisitiveness is a highly organized human 
faculty, for we are all human. We are not 
less human after our promotion to a higher 
sphere, connected with the lower plane. Kindly 
note the differentiation of the higher sphere and 
the lower plane. The correlation is exact with 
that of the human personality: the material 
and spiritual,—two in one. 

Through the range of creation, God has 
endowed his creatures with a love of kind, from 
the creation of the human family to that of 
the animal, and from thence to the vegetable 
creation. All are grouped in family circles; 


THE FAMILY UNIT 


105 


even trees of the forest find family relation¬ 
ship in establishing within groups the younger 
branches, off-shoots from the parent trees. 


CHAPTER XIX 


THE NEW ERA OF PSYCHICAL RESEARCH 

New York City, 
February i 8 } 1917- 

TARS travel through space in family 
groups. The Pleiades are examples—the 
Seven Sisters, carrying their sweet influ¬ 
ences—“Canst thou bind the sweet influence 
of the Pleiades, or break the bands of Orion?” 
writes Job, who read the mysteries of the stars. 

The earth and heaven is but another example 
of this axiomatic truth. But you will say, what 
of the other worlds and systems of worlds 
traveling through space? How happens it that 
this earth planet is so favored? 

Herein is the secret of Godship; it is not the 
province of this book to repeat all that is 
written. There is much yet to be revealed, 
and God will lead us on the way thither from 
time to time, as the mind of man inquires. 

Today we have reached a new era in the 
field of discovery. Hitherto the way has been 
veiled. There has been very little written in the 
light of the revealed consciousness under normal 


S 


NEW ERA OF PSYCHICAL RESEARCH 107 

conditions. Abnormality has had its night; its 
province must cease with the ushering in of a 
new day in the full glare of the noontide sun. 
There must not be employed the abnormal, the 
supernormal, the subnormal consciousness; the 
pendulum of consciousness has been swinging 
far into the midnight and far out of poise be¬ 
yond the daylight, in the endeavor to estab¬ 
lish equilibrium. At last equilibrium is estab¬ 
lished and the safe route from the upper sphere 
to the lower plane accomplished. 

The traveler who employs this route will not 
be startled by the dim appearance of shadows 
lurking to intercept him or to thwart his efforts 
—for in his future investigations he will em¬ 
ploy only the normal agency of that law devel¬ 
oped within himself by the enlargement of cell- 
capacity. 

As time hastens on toward futurity, the ten¬ 
uity of the atmosphere will become more in ac¬ 
cord with that of the lower plane, because of the 
influx of thought vibration invading new chan¬ 
nels of the dense atmosphere. This is the in¬ 
evitable result. 

As the world is suffering today through dis¬ 
cord and hate, plunging through space out of 
its regular line of travel, so will the future see 
the two spheres, the upper and the lower, 
bound together in one atmosphere, one heaven, 


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one earth, reunited through harmony and love. 
Then shall men see face to face, even as we 
are seen. 

You will observe that the cultivation of the 
occult forces with you are unnecessary to the 
enlightenment of the coming age. The brain 
herein employed becomes dull to the finer vibra¬ 
tions, having attached itself to abnormal atmos¬ 
pheric conditions it receives false impressions, 
unreliable. Some phenomena have been at¬ 
tained by the forced intermingling of atmos¬ 
pheres—but the results are highly injurious 
to those who bring about such results and for no 
special gain save that of a morbid curiosity. 

Therefore I urge the student of life seek¬ 
ing after Truth to avoid obtaining it in such 
abnormal, fatuous manner. Within every hu¬ 
man organism there lies a highly sensitized re- 
flectograph. As the heart is guarded within 
the structure of the body, so is this sensitized 
faculty of the mind guarded deeply within the 
cellular tissues of the brain, when discovered 
through culture of faculty. The brilliancy of 
this faculty is enhanced by that of other cell 
culture in close proximity; through attention and 
close application to the interior development of 
this discovered faculty, satisfactory results may 
be obtained in connecting thought and assured 
correspondence through the two atmospheres. 

For this most important investigation, the 


NEW ERA OF PSYCHICAL RESEARCH 109 

world needs good blood—red corpuscles, none 
others should be tolerated by the student scien¬ 
tist. 

The world has been satiated with the white- 
corpuscled societies for psychical research. It 
is a lamentable truth that those who have been 
promoted to the Higher Sphere of life should 
suffer the ignominy of the Lower Plane’s 
thought following them into this higher exist¬ 
ence in vapor-like substance, more like material 
atmosphere, every known epithet hurled after 
them. 

This evidence of the ignorance of the Lower 
Plane seems inexcusable, as science and inven¬ 
tion have coupled the thoughts of men with the 
stars. 

Conservatism still holds its band between 
civilization and the light beyond. 

Occasionally a courageous spirit advances 
and lifts the veil and comes back with authentic 
reports; not the obnoxious veil of abnormality, 
but the lifted veil, revealing divine faculty, 
normally expressed. I bid all such God-speed. 


CHAPTER XX 


THE MASTER CREATION: THE PROMISE 


February i 8 , 1917- 

I NOTE WITH vibrant joy the change in 
the heart of man under the stress of the 
war conditions and that of the inquiring 
mind in regard to God’s will in allowing the 
holocaust that bids fair to envelope the two 
hemispheres, to continue. 

Man, the Masterpiece of Creation, endowed 
with every faculty, has been given pre-eminence 
in creation. His position in the universe is a 
little lower than the angels, all things have been 
placed beneath his feet; “the birds of the air, 
the fish of the sea, yea, whatsoever passeth 
through the paths of the sea.” 

In reviewing man’s achievements during the 
present century, we are prepared to believe that 
God made no mistake in his estimate of the man 
whom he first made out of clay and endowed 
with the breath of Life, establishing him on 
the invisible throne of his destiny—here man 
begins his reign over self and over his own 
environment, co-existent with his individual ap¬ 
pointment. To be conserved by his Creator, to 
be led by a chain, to be tied to a rock, to be 


THE MASTER CREATION: THE PROMISE 111 

enjoined in action, or to be coerced or thwarted 
in his leadership would be the work of a human, 
not a Divine Master. 

He has been richly endowed by inexplicable 
endowment of faculties for every demand of 
his material and spiritual nature. He has also 
been given a library of reference more pro¬ 
found in learning than any other book the 
world has ever known. In this Book lies his 
A, B, C of culture, of life, character, decision, 
of whatsoever nature his chart, his compass, 
his route leading through the complex path he 
must needs tread away unto the Celestial City. 

The possession of treasure at last satiates the 
appetite and after studying the Book for awhile, 
man became anxious to write a treatise of his 
own, a chart better adapted to another route 
on which he would feign journey; so he has laid 
The Book aside and in so doing, lost his Guide. 
After centuries struggling through the dark— 
through splendid courts of earthly empire, ac¬ 
cepting the plaudits of the people, he becomes 
his own guide and forgets that there was One 
who IS Guide to the Wayfarer. Suddenly 
catastrophe comes. He feels himself enveloped 
helplessly, his friends dying in battle, his coun¬ 
try defeated, himself lost in calamity. Where 
is God? he cries hoarsely—the Saviour of man¬ 
kind—where is He who said, “Behold, I am 
with you alway—even to the end of the world” ? 


112 


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But you say, what of the believers? What of 
the innocents, the women, and the little chib 
dren? Herein lies the tragedy of what seems 
remorseless fate, that the angels do not with 
swift pinions intercept the coming squadrons 
and stay the guns from their terrible onslaught. 

The laws of harmony have been swept aside. 
Man has placed himself in the firing line, under 
the inexorable conditions brought about by his 
own disobedience of law. Herein lies the 
fallacy of man’s judgment. But “what is man’s 
infirmity is God’s opportunity.” 

* * * * 

February ig, ig 17. 

There are those who discourage young people 
from undertaking military training, making the 
assertion that it presages war and incites in men 
military ambitions. Look over the various 
fields of action in Europe and in this country 
today and count the men who are beyond the 
age of thirty or forty years old who are leaders 
in the activities of state who have not received 
their training and preparation for statesman¬ 
ship in some military academy, or where the 
study of military tactics has been encouraged. 

The battle is to the strong. The fields of 
Europe are strewn with the brave young lads 
who gave to their country all they had, and 
certainly the preparation of European citizen¬ 
ship in times of peace was infinitely more than 


THE MASTER CREATION: THE PROMISE 113 

that of the United States in this most critical 
time of her history. I use this as an illustration 
of what I am about to say to you at an hour 
when the forecast of the future of this country 
is imperiled, because of a lack of preparedness. 
What goes on in the world so far as those of 
us who are little removed from its anxieties, 
is of little consequence, so far as it concerns 
our individual interests. But I stand tonight 
on the confines of creation, viewing the awful 
spectacle the world presents to the view of all 
on this Upper Sphere, and as we gaze below, 
a tremor of grief spreads from man to man; 
women are gathered here in little groups, wring¬ 
ing their hands in an agony of heart, wishing 
there could be some palliating power—some 
relief given. But it seems that our ministra¬ 
tion should be given to the living, as well as to 
those who are coming in such large armies to 
recruit the armies here. We reach out our 
arms and our prayers are comforting to those 
who suffer. But we realize that there is little 
more that we may do, as justice is unsatisfied 
and wrong unrequited. 

It has become a war of civilization against 
barbarian agencies. The earth has slipped 
back into mediaeval history—this history of 
the past has been forgotten in the splendid ad¬ 
vance of civilization. The history of the 
Roman Empire, of the Ptolemies, of the Egyp- 


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tian dynasties, of Babylon, and the archives 
of the great, found in the ruins of Pompeii, all 
prove that there is now presented to the world 
the chaotic forces swinging in one gigantic pile 
the wreck of the greatest civilization the world 
has ever known! 

When the rainbow spread across the sky 
after the first great upheaval of natural forces, 
covering the first world catastrophe underneath 
the waters, the Lord promised never to destroy 
the earth by water again. The promise of the 
Lord is remembered each time we view the 
harmony of colors we see mingling together in 
one splendid arch across the horizon. With 
this wonderful bow of promise, God introduced 
a spiritual law interwoven in the tints, mingling 
together so harmoniously, and this spiritual 
law governs the harmony of the peoples of the 
world; as the tints are mingled together in the 
bow of promise, so is the evidence of harmony 
written in the skies within the promise God 
gave to the world when he gathered the waters 
together and promised nevermore to destroy 
the earth. The world will not be destroyed— 
but this last great conflict will be the last one 
to mar the beauty of creation. From out the 
chaos of misery and disintegration, there shall 
come a better race of men and women, a race 
of people whose hearts shall be more attentive 
to the Voice of God. 


THE MASTER CREATION: THE PROMISE 115 

The rainbow of promise still flings its banner 
of harmony across the horizon, and people be¬ 
holding it, shall remember God and his infinite 
love. 

The love of power and the love of gain shall 
be swept away in the debris, the new people 
shall love knowledge and study with under¬ 
standing. Power will come, peace, right and 
justice shall rule kingdoms and principalities 
and there shall be no more war. 


CHAPTER XXI 


MEMORIES OF CHILDHOOD: 
COMPANIONSHIP 


February 20, 1917- 


HERE IS A LITTLE playmate of mine 



with me tonight. We strolled along the 


path together, talking of the things we 
see. He sorrows much for those whom he left 
a year ago, and he tells me his dog, Bruno, 
came after him whining, and he wants Bruno. 

This little chap lived in Missouri, he tells 
me. His name is Henry Willis Dwight. We 
get along well together, and the little one plays 
by my side and is now content and happy. He 
is much interested in this visit. He watches 
intently every movement of the pen, and reads 
my thoughts as you imprint them on the page. 
This is indeed a mystery to Henry for he does 
not see my lips move—and while he readily 
understands my unspoken thought, he cannot 
quite comprehend how you are able to do like¬ 
wise. I have explained it to him, and tell him 
that to enter the Subway and take a train to 
Chicago or Washington would make no differ¬ 
ence; that I do not often visit New York, but 


MEMORIES OF CHILDHOOD 117 

usually compile my data from some distant 
star or planet. 

Coming along the path, Henry discovered 
ants crawling along the sand hills. He told me 
they were like emigrants, hiking bundles. He 
wanted to know what the ant did to sluggards, 
evidently trying to make some connection—I 
might have told him the ant carried his bundle, 
while the sluggard let somebody else carry his. 

“Boy Scouts never do,” promptly replied 
Henry. 

“Bless you, no, my boy. Boy Scouts get 
many ideas from the little field heroes found 
everywhere in thrifty enterprises—no stagna¬ 
tion in the forests—everywhere active. At 
dawn all creation is up and at work. The birds, 
singing on their way, going south for the win¬ 
ter, or returning north for the summer, build¬ 
ing or garnering. . .” 

“Tell me, when you were a boy like me.” 

“All right, my lad. Sit here by my side 
while I tell you what I mostly enjoyed. When 
I was a boy, Nature held much for me. The 
trees in nutting time employed much of my time. 
I gathered the fruit and spread out the kernels 
in attic corners. The spiders that I met there 
created in me many venturous schemes. Those 
attic pirates? The beetles, moths and the bats 
—to be hit in the face by a bat in the dark is 
a rare bit of experience in a boy’s memory. 



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How I loved to poke away those long white 
baby rattles hanging from the old rafters! Gee 
whiz I I remember the sting yet. Bluebottle 
flies, with that peculiar iridescent wing tissue, 
were most fascinating to me. Hornets and 
pinch-bugs won a great deal of sympathy, I 
guess because all the boys chased them and 
tried to kill them. . .” 

Henry interrupted here and said, “Once I 
told a boy if he chased any more hornets, I 
would lick him—I like hornets a good deal bet¬ 
ter than mosquitoes—their buzz is bigger and 
it gives a feller a chance to get away. Once I 
found a beehive in a tree. Jimmy Thurlow had 
a saw with him—we had been in Dad’s timber- 
pile where we used to get blocks to make into 
rafts to float down the stream where beavers 
used to live. Jimmy said he wasn’t afraid of 
bees; so he took the saw, while I climbed up 
the tree beyond where Jimmy sawed—Tell you ! 
I thought my time had come, when Jimmy 
opened up that hole. Jimmy got it more than 
me. The bees just went for him. But mother 
piled on tobacco and gave him most of the 
honey. I’m glad she did. Bruno just saved 
his life by fighting those bees and lashing them 
with his tail. Bruno—Bruno—. . .” 

“Henry, do you remember seeing the lady- 
bugs and crickets in your garden, and the katy¬ 
dids at twilight, singing at the door?” 



MEMORIES OF CHILDHOOD 


119 


“Yes, and one night I flopped a tree-toad 
from my pillow, and another time killed a snake 
near the well.” 

“Do you think a hornet is better than a 
snake ?” 

“Well, a feller likes to defend something, 
but no boy could stand up for a snake, ’spe¬ 
cially a scout like me.” 



CHAPTER XXII 


THE RELATIONSHIP OF GOD TO MAN 

New York City, 
February 2 /f } 1917* 

T HERE ARE many truths to be revealed 
in regard to Scripture that have not been 
interpreted by many, owing to the ma¬ 
terial development beyond that of spiritual 
mind. 

The objective mind has been employed in the 
affairs of life on the plane of its activity, leav¬ 
ing the subliminal mind undirected and waiting 
its opportunity of expression. This is largely 
due to the general disuse of the Bible as the 
guide-book for which it was given to man. 

The Scriptures are full of wisdom not beyond 
the understanding of men developed into the 
full stature of men. Will the student kindly 
follow my thought, patiently endeavoring to 
obtain its full meaning? This may not appear 
directly. Think deeply of what I am about to 
express, even though it appears to be abstruse. 

Therein lies the secret, the revealment of 
which will give man the assurance of Truth 


RELATIONSHIP OF GOD TO MAN 121 

related to himself, connecting him with the Uni¬ 
versal Mind, God. 

The Bible is the torch the enlightened mind 
may use in its search after Truth, correlating 
the mind with God; making that multiple of 
mind which is the prime essential; to those in¬ 
terested in the study of the human personality, 
this is the only way to Truth. The acceptance 
must come through that of the personal ex¬ 
perience, as typified by the Scriptural references 
accessible to all that labor for the attainment 
of wisdom. 

The mind urged by the intensity of desire 
responds to the accepted promise of God for 
wisdom and understanding. Thought becomes 
imbued with the idea of direction and the fact 
of experience as final in its discovery of the law 
by which certainty is reached. 

Man has at last discovered himself, in his 
resident God-power, as the instrument through 
which God works out His plans through the 
human personality. To recognize and to apply 
this power is to gain wisdom and understand¬ 
ing. God is the power; man the instrument. 

The conflict of opinion is so great in the 
world in regard to the future existence that it 
seems expedient for one who has entered into 
that experience to use every effort within his 
power to make conditions plain. I realize at 


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once there will be a conflict of opinion. Those 
who refuse to believe the truth will also disbe¬ 
lieve my ability to transverse the realms of 
space and therefore express opinion. 

I make no apology; to students and those 
who are earnestly seeking Eternal Life, I have 
worlds of comfort to impart. I speak with 
authority of one who has discovered treasure 
and hastens to lay his precious gems at the feet 
of those who perish. 

This necessitates some revealment of the 
Bible riches and their relation to human need 
and enlightenment through application and the 
acceptance of Truth. 

As the relation of man to the Infinite has 
been described in these pages, you will readily 
see that cutting off our source of supply brings 
disaster to us living in the physical universe. 
We are not aware, some of us who are not 
studious of affairs relating to the Life Beyond, 
that strict attention must be paid to the Word 
of God. It is our sure defense; it is life both 
in the abstract and in the concrete; it embraces 
all human experience; within the Word we find 
the Way and the Truth. 

The way opens now for the revelation of 
some of the secret processes of powers within 
the human personality, so remote within the 
soul as to have evaded the research of ages. 


RELATIONSHIP OF GOD TO MAN 123 

Everything that is created is in accord with 
laws governing that special creation. 

God ordains that his people should dwell in 
families; even the brute creation is not over¬ 
looked in this divine ordinance. The thought 
suggests great beauty in its co-ordination. 
From the reference, “to the fall of the spar¬ 
row,” and “the numbering of the hairs of the 
head,” implying the minute oversight—“the 
tender care of the Shepherd,” all suggest the 
tender care of the Heavenly Father for the 
creatures of his own creation. 

Centuries passed and man forgot his inherit¬ 
ance—his treasure hidden away—he has be¬ 
come a wanderer in his father’s vineyard, a 
stranger from home. Disaster comes; he feels 
the earth falling away beneath his feet; fain 
would he find his way. Some have learned the 
Way and are comforted in the thought. To 
those who have yet to find it, let me say that 
prayer is more than vain repetition of words, 
when we pray sincerely. This I learned in part 
before coming here, as many others have done. 
What I then learned, I now verify as truth. 
The Father hears the faintest cry of his child; 
the answer is not always in accord with the 
preference of the child, but according to the 
best interests of that child’s development. 

This is the established relationship of God, 
the Father to humanity. Every soul born into 


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the earth plane is connected by right of divinity 
to the soul of God, the Father. This is your 
birthright, whether you recognize or accept 
your divine sonship or not. The gift belongs 
to you; the rich, the poor, the strong, the feeble, 
the alien—all are Sons of the Most High, 
Princes and Heirs to His Kingdom. 

The earth, your birth plane, is your prepara¬ 
tion for the affairs of the Everlasting Kingdom 
of Your Father who so richly endowed you with 
faculty. 

“What is man, that thou are mindful of him, 
or the son of man that thou visitest him? Thou 
hast made him little lower than the angels. 
Thou puttest all things under his feet: the fish 
of the sea, yea, whatsoever passeth through the 
paths of the sea.” 

This rich endowment has been disbelieved 
and underestimated as fable or fairy tale. 
However, the fact remains, and man is still 
amenable to the laws ordained at the creation, 
whether he recognizes these laws or not. 

Therefore, man is under the law and himself 
relatively connected with this same law; he may 
conform to its privileges, advancing him to 
higher levels, or ignore his masterful inherit¬ 
ance and sink to the level of his ambitions. 

To those who strive for the mastery of self, 
the Bible contains invaluable hints of some 
hidden treasure which search may reveal. 


RELATIONSHIP OF GOD TO MAN 125 

These hidden treasures are found in the human 
personality when it becomes one with the In¬ 
finite. 

The mind of man reaches out in search of 
God, who is attuned to his cry. “My sheep 
know my voice; I am the Good Shepherd and 
know my sheep and am known of mine.” 

This reference is important in enabling the 
student to understand the relation of the 
Heavenly Father to the child, symbolized in 
the tender Shepherd. Herein is the law ex¬ 
emplified and is in direct action today. 

Prayer brings your mind into immediate con¬ 
tact with the Mind of God—your mind and the 
Mind of God unite in the Unit or multiple mind 
which is the basic principle of completeness. 
Herein lies your power with God, given to you 
unreservedly, so far as you are capacitated in 
receiving the blessing. 

To those who have discovered their power 
through earnest search after the treasure, there 
are still open to their entranced vision vistas of 
experience exceeding great riches. 

The forces of the world material are now 
getting evidence of the past. The wreck of the 
present seems deeper than the apathy of nations 
seems to realize. The world is moving rapidly 
toward the New Era—toward the dawn of 
that Perfect Day of reconstruction. 

I do not wish now to use my golden hours in 




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writing of the development of the illuminated 
prophecies of Old—recorded in the sacred 
Scriptures. Time and events are within a sys¬ 
tem of laws governing futurity. 

It is my desire to present Truth to the recep¬ 
tive mind of the world in its entirety, concern¬ 
ing the human personality and its relation to 
God through the correlation of laws set in 
motion at the time of creation—at the same 
time to connect man as a moral entity independ¬ 
ent in his material being, having the power of 
initiative and of free will. 




CHAPTER XXIII 


LOVE 


New York City, 


February 25 , igiy. 


T HE SUBJECT near my heart tonight as 
my glance sweeps o’er this stricken earth 
is Love. 

The air is luminous with love, borne from 
This Side to that Other Side, falling through 
the medium of Hate. Here all is Love; and 
we have love in great abundance. The battle¬ 
fields are strewn with the strength and the 
youth of Europe. All who are yet breathing 
the sordid smoke of battle are bathed in the 
atmosphere of love. The manly breast carried 
love into the fight and it was for love of coun¬ 
try that he went courageously to die. Ah! He 
dies not alone. Angelic presences are near, 
breathing into his ebbing life the love of 
Heaven, mingled with his love of country, of 
home and loved ones. It is love that bears him 
and his comrades in arms to the Light that 
fadeth not away. 

At creation, this place where we all come 
sooner or later was set aside for the wayfarer, 


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those whom the destiny of time and fate sent 
thither. “Eye hath not seen, neither hath it 
entered into the heart of man, the glories that 
await him.” 

This heaven is so close akin to my subject 
that herein may it be classed together with its 
twin-sister, Love. For Love is Heaven, and 
Heaven is Love. The angel closed the gate 
and stands sentinel, that hate may not enter in, 
to disturb Love and Harmony. Hate proceeds 
on her way with her comrades in chains of de¬ 
lusion and false belief, until at last this revivi¬ 
fying, creative force absorbs and re-creates 
them—for Love is compelling as Heaven is 
justice; and some there are who never heard of 
that Love which is God; for Love suffereth long 
and is kind. 

Love is the initial creation. God is the em¬ 
bodiment of Love, the essence of Love perme¬ 
ating all creation. I find negatived on the brain 
of my correspondent, a definition of God. None 
better could be given, as this definition was 
given by the correlation of mind through prayer 
and definitely understood and written down 
years ago by my correspondent: 

“I am Love, the Divine Essence of Life, 

The Essence of Love radiating from my 
personality 

Is Life to the world; the regenerating 
Power 



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129 


Of this earth, the habilament of all 
verdure, 

The Glory of all that exists.” 

God reveals himself to those who search 
earnestly to find him in the avenues of prayer. 
That to search is to find, is a self-evident propo¬ 
sition. God has given us minute directions in 
the chart he has left. “Seek and ye shall find” 
is not theoretical language. 

The avenues of prayer must be kept unob¬ 
structed, leading to the mercy-seat. The world 
is turning eagerly in this direction. It is in¬ 
secure; men seem to be moving about as dazed 
creatures, devoid of the mastery of mind. Men 
in high places are robed in veils—they do not 
see clearly. The unprecedented dazzles the 
brain. They stagger beneath the burden of gov¬ 
ernment. They reel, knowing not which way to 
turn. The avenues of prayer grow branches 
of doubt which obscure the light beyond. 
Christians are sending prayers; I see the 
waves of light ascend. These aerial messages, 
freighted with love for those who bend deeply 
over the intricate problems of the hour. Lis¬ 
ten: the answers are sent back; the Infinite 
Mind controls them—listen to the still small 
voice. Dissociate all thoughts of the world for 
the moment—cultivate patiently the faculty of 
concentration. The gift belongs to you to culti¬ 
vate. 


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This preamble to earthly love is the highest 
of all loves, for it is the brooding love of the 
Creator for the creature. Speaking with au¬ 
thority as one who discerns the creation from 
the advancement of life, I must employ the 
language best suited to express my meaning, 
for it is relative to the Mind of God when He 
created man in His own image and thrilled 
Him with the divine breath of Being which is 
love. This is the tie that binds the creature 
man to God, as a part of God, having within 
his soul the elemental essence of creation. Man 
may accept this thesis or not, refusing in his 
belief his power to love his wife, his children, 
through God. He cannot escape his divine 
prerogative. For in Him he lives and moves 
and has his being. 

Love is the atmosphere of Heaven; we 
breathe none other; we are bathed in its efful¬ 
gence. It radiates light; it is the dynamic force 
that moves worlds in space and stars in their 
courses; it is the creative essence; the new 
world, the new stars evolve through the force 
of love. The spring is the symbol of love. 
Here the young maiden puts on her glorious 
garment of green and brings forth the blossoms 
of her youth and understanding. The young 
feel the vitalizing power. The birds trill to 
their mates, and the nesting season begins. 

Love is the master-painter of sky and land- 


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131 


scape; of mountains and sea. The secret places 
he illuminates with the banner of His face. He 
touches all hearts with the rosy hue of His 
brush. The fields he spreads with the dew of 
His breath. The animals He touches with 
pathetic languor; they feel the divine impetus, 
and lie down with the calf. 

Love is pure, is spiritual, and of Heaven, 
surviving bodily death. Passion is gross matter. 
Some blindly relate this to love. Passion is 
material, easily diverted temporarily on the 
side of love, capable of quick revulsion, to in¬ 
difference or hate. It is distinctly separate 
from love, and has no relation to the Divine 
Essence. Passion satiates, disintegrates and 
does not survive bodily death. 


Love sustains life 
Love gives all 
Love provides 
Love endures 
Love is discerning 
Love is constant 


Passion defrauds life 
Passion takes all 
Passion robs 
Passion is transient 
Passion is blind 
Passion wavers 


Love is Life, both sides of life—the unit of 
life; the comeliest of all the personality, for it 
stamps the human with the Divine. 


CHAPTER XXIV 


MARRIAGE 

New York City, 
February igiy. 

M ARRIAGE is the uniting of twin souls. 

This is the only spiritual marriage and 
the only marriage that survives bodily 
death. This is a broad statement, but it will 
be substantiated by truth when perceived in re¬ 
lation to sex in the extended view-point of the 
student. 

Throughout the universal creation, sex seeks 
completion in mating; in lower creatures, in¬ 
stinct leads to the choice and is followed by the 
amours of love responding to the laws of repro¬ 
duction. 

Material creation follows the laws of re¬ 
production in vegetable product, in forestry, in 
flowers. The shells of the sea contain twin 
embryo, while the stars travel through space 
in quest of love. 

The design in creation is that of harmony 
in detail. Herein, in meditation, is the observer 
thrilled with the revelation in all of its singular 
fitness and beauty. 


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133 


Truly is Paradise the central thought of 
creation; from out this center of the human 
race radiates the grandest view ever presented 
to the world. Perfection in its entirety. Spirit 
and matter. The divine origin of man and his 
companion, woman: “bone of my bones, and 
flesh of my flesh.” This creation typifies the 
relationship between man and wife. The one¬ 
ness of marriage is the essential to harmony, 
and therefore to family life indispensable. The 
cradle of the human family was wrought in 
perfection, calculated to preserve the beauty of 
the form divine; of the sanctity of love the 
world is deeply cognizant; of all the mistakes 
and the sorrows of ill-guided unions and un¬ 
happy homes, of illegitimate children defrauded 
of their just heritage, of all that make up the 
sorrows of life, this is the most lamentable and 
far-reaching in its effect on life and society. 
Degeneration of the race is inevitable when 
marriage is debased, for out of the consecrated 
home comes strength and fortitude for whatso¬ 
ever life offers to man. 

Chastity is the morning star lighting the 
castle and the cabin with rays of hope for the 
future race of men and women. Without this 
the man degenerates in body and soul, to be¬ 
come incapacitated. 

The years of degeneration have produced a 
dullness of apprehension in the human family, 


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obliterating and stultifying nature’s call, so that 
the riot of blood coursing through the veins of 
adolescent man, slow to maturity, develops 
within him unnatural desires, which he mistakes 
for love. 

Love is spiritual, and in its truest embodi¬ 
ment brings into life, heaven, which it creates. 
This is the marriage which survives bodily 
death. They shall be one flesh, one spirit, one 
mind. 

The multiple mind transcends the material 
existence. The two souls blend into one soul. 
There shall be no marriage in Heaven—be¬ 
cause Nature is the minister of the human fam¬ 
ily, uniting souls destined to be one. Each soul 
has its twin soul. Cohesion attracts and unites 
them, as the dawn blends into the day. 

Having lost the way, the human family must 
needs be guided by the laws of state or of na¬ 
tion in their preservation of law and of order, 
for the protection of purity and justice, the 
establishment of home and happiness in wedded 
love. 


CHAPTER XXV 


HEAVEN 

New York City, 
March 8, 1917. 

S PECULATION attaches to the place of 
Heaven. When a boy, I thought Heaven 
to be a place in a far-off corner of the 
universe, enclosed within a high wall, so high 
and broad that none might break within the 
pearly gates; I imagined streets of gold and 
palaces of alabaster and a throne where God 
sat and administered justice, with attendant 
angels coming and going, with seats of pre¬ 
ferment on either side of the throne; where 
choirs of angels sang praises day and night. 

Today as I look about the place called 
Heaven, I see no such reminders of my child¬ 
hood’s imaginings. What I see is a vast ex¬ 
panse of area, illimitable. My vision extends 
to a place where I see a gentle decline—maybe 
several thousands of miles away. Everything 
swinging in space is spherical. Heaven is the 
exterior, or largest of all the system of planets 
within the universe—encircling all systems of 
creation, worlds and worlds, suns, empire of 


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suns, stars and nebulae. All this spherical crea¬ 
tion travels within the orbit of its own path, 
carrying its special atmosphere constituted to 
the need of its habitant. 

While the atmosphere of the heavenly sphere 
commingles with that of millions of worlds 
swinging within the heavenly sphere, it is not 
affected by contact with extraneous atmosphere, 
as the tenuous air transfuses while it does not 
absorb. Elimination of noxious thoughts ad¬ 
hering to spirit gradually disperse in the extra¬ 
neous. Jerusalem is the earthly type of this city, 
as John saw it, coming down from God out of 
Heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her 
husband. 

* * * * 

March 13, IQIJ. 

The opportunity is much appreciated. 

I long to tell you more and more of this 
beautiful world in which I live, and the joys of 
life here. I wish to paint in truth the Heaven 
I live in, that the picture may prove to be al¬ 
luring to men and women on the Earth Plane 
who ignore the fact of Eternity and join in the 
pursuit of pleasure and forgetfulness at the ex¬ 
pense of their own salvation. 

This is no idle dream or fantasy of the 
moment. The windows of Heaven are open to 
the world and he who is willing to look may 
see the fulfillment of prophecy in the events 


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137 


transpiring. The world in conflict! Students, 
men of science, preachers and teachers of the 
word, listen! Listen! Watchman, what of 
the night? What are the signs of the coming 
of the Lord? Do the men of the world forget 
their cunning? Their towers of Babel sway 
in the morning. Wise men are thinking of the 
time and of the promise and are questioning to¬ 
gether the meaning of all this. Look back over 
the centuries of darkness gradually leading up 
to the brilliancy of the present age. Note the 
achievement and the sudden emptying of the 
vast hidden treasure of discovery. This means 
the end of the journey—the reaper is gather¬ 
ing up the sheaves of the harvest and is garner¬ 
ing them into the storehouse. 

I would that I might use my power so gen¬ 
erously afforded me now to invite men to a 
serious consideration of this message, in con¬ 
nection with the events transpiring in the world 
today. 

Come now, let us reason together, as men 
grown to the full attainment of Being; the 
words abide within the secret place; the key to 
this has been given in the Book of Books and 
left for the interpretation of the nations. God 
broods over his people with the tender compas¬ 
sion of Fatherhood—the sorrows of the world, 
the groaning of the oppressed is wrought in 
love of the Father and enwrapped in his mercy. 


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From the view-point of man under the full 
stature of Being, the analytical love of God 
cannot brood over suffering; to Him God is 
away on a journey and fled, while the household 
is given over to the ravenous wolves. Not so, 
not so! God is in the storm,—near the stricken 
fold, ministering to His children, enfolding 
them within His abiding Love. It is not death, 
to die. Our view-point is changed as we merge 
into the full stature of Being and we behold 
perfection as it is. 

To you who gaze as through a glass darkly, 
it seems the iconoclasm of fate—the absolute 
disaster! This human struggle that staggers 
the imagination! The brute creation evolving 
on the fringe of civilization, eating its way 
down into the abyss of another cycle. 

The weaver’s shuttle moves swiftly, entwin¬ 
ing the bright warp and the sombre woof, the 
sunshine and shadow, the morning and the 
night, the twilight—the dawn, the storm—the 
calm, the heights—the depths, the spring and 
fall, the summer and winter, joy and sorrow. 
All this is balance—in other words, compensa¬ 
tion : the unit of Life, the unit of Creation, the 
twinship of experience, wrought out of the 
vicissitudes of life. 

Balance is essential, whatever the nature of 
the creation, whether it be still life, or vibrant 




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139 


in action. The Law is unstayed in its action, 
unthwarted in its advance through its channel 
cut deep in the world grooves; unswayed by 
empires or worlds hurtling through space out 
of orbit in the path of the destroyer—the Law 
worketh no ill. 

“The voice of one crying in the wilderness 
‘make straight the path of the Lord,’ ” is to¬ 
day heard in the courts of the Most High. The 
ministry of the church hears the voice, and the 
people are advancing into the highways and re¬ 
pairing the broken places on the way, and plac¬ 
ing lights in dark places. Men are aware of 
God’s presence. 

Maidens are trimming their lamps and 
adorning for the coming of the Bridegroom. 
Men are hastening in their effort to obtain 
wealth. “Make straight the path of the Lord.” 

* * * * 

March i6 f igij. 

The mind cannot conceive the splendors that 
await revealment. In justice to my efforts to 
describe the heavenly home, I must repeat as 
I so often have said in the preceding chapters, 
that the personality gleans much of heaven 
while journeying thither—what heaven is to 
me, measures up to my attainment there. I 
would that my language might be very clear— 
that no doubt should mingle with the Truth as 



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I desire to express it. My interior develop¬ 
ment intensifies the beauty and the glory of 
Heaven. My soul is Heaven in embryo—this 
is the same of every soul—God created man 
in His own Image. As the soul becomes lumi- 
nant in understanding, Heaven is revealed; the 
eyes, those windows of the soul, reveal the 
kingly dwelling place within: the Temple of 
the Holy Spirit abiding: the dwelling place of 
the Most High, God! 

This is not figurative language. It is old as 
the Word given to Moses on the tablet of stone. 
I am privileged to turn the light on the pages 
after many centuries have crept down the ages, 
wrapped in the swaddling clothes of oblivion. 
The era of a new day is advancing; the night 
is far spent; the day star is near. Man, the 
unit, contains the whole creation. 

When man comes to the recognition of his 
kingship, he will exercise the leash of self mas¬ 
tery, and gradually regain his lost inheritance. 
The product of his mind will re-create the 
earth. He will fight the dross of human experi¬ 
ence inimical to progress, as plagues are now 
eradicated. The mind thus clarified will re¬ 
flect signal beauty of countenance. Deformity 
will be outclassed as irregular, and inferior 
product. The new earth will contain a perfect 
race of men. 


HEAVEN 


141 


You ask about God. Think deeply; cherish 
the thought. Listen. Do you hear a voice in 
answer to the prayerful thought vibrating 
through the chamber of your interior self? 
Remember, O Soul, the within of you is open 
to the universal reservoir of the without! The 
nearness of God is incomparable—He is within 
you. “In Him I live and move and have my 
being.” I need this divine essence. I breathe 
it. It is life; it is hope; it is sustaining; it is 
love. 

I am only dead—a dead thing—when I fail 
to recognize my Lord, and I shrivel and starve 
in body and spirit. He is here in this Holy of 
Holies of my being, lighting the torch of fire 
which I wave out to the submerged humanities 
in this grief-stricken world. 

Listen. Do you detect a lover’s note vibrat¬ 
ing in your empty heart, made desolate by war? 
Do you feel a thrill striking at your dead heart? 
Had you forgotten love—? You read this 
sacred page—your thought is stirred to action 
—you ponder the truth of my words from be¬ 
yond the stars—you seek to know the Truth. 

I claim that within the human personality 
there is proof of God and of immortality—we 
need only the lamp of God’s love to shine into 
our hearts. Listen. Repeat the prayer you 
learned at mother’s knee. The world carries 
about on its wounded breast, the babies’ prayer. 



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Your lips are tired—you cannot frame the long- 
forgotten words—your soul is in agony of 
doubt—already the strength is there within 
you, waiting to meet your need. You feel the 
impulse of the Everlasting Arms beneath you; 
within is the Love of God. 


CHAPTER XXVI 


THE DRAMA OF WORLDS 


New York City, 


March ig, igiy. 



UCH INTEREST attaches to this 
book, and a few desire to express 
briefly some sentiment in regard to 


Truth. 

I have invited a few of my friends to partici¬ 
pate in a discussion involving world movements 
at this time. In so doing we hope to prove 
first, individuality; and second, power to im¬ 
press the subject matter in the mind of each 
individual present on the conscious, normal 
mind of our correspondent—inviting her to ex¬ 
plain how she is able to differentiate speakers, 
how she is able to know various attitudes or 
gestures made by those who are only present 
in thought. 

We have talked this event over and the con¬ 
sensus of opinion is that we assemble on the 
Westminster campus near the church. London 
is a favorite spot, for some of us are English 
by birth. 

The gentlemen assembled here are: William 



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Ewart Gladstone, William Shakespeare, Patrick 
Henry, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Ellery 
Channing, Henry Ward Beecher, Disraeli, 
Abraham Lincoln, George Washington and 
William James. 

The dictator of this paper has been elected 
chairman of the informal gathering, and in¬ 
vokes Divine Aid in the success of the experi¬ 
ment which he hopes will add indubitable proof 
to the fact of life beyond. . . Turning to 

the assembled meeting, he speaks: 

“Gentlemen, to me this is a solemn occasion. 
We are to be witnesses of a law hitherto un¬ 
tested by science. A pact made between two 
worlds, a combine of minds—ten minds as¬ 
sembled here under the shadow of Westmin¬ 
ster in the tenuous atmosphere of space, against 
one mind on the other side of life, and dwelling 
on another continent.” 

William Gladstone moves to a space near the 
Chairman and extends his arms toward the 
sea while one hand is lifted as in reverent medi¬ 
tation : 

“The event is unparalleled in the world’s 
history. I observe a faint ray of light travers¬ 
ing the air as I think of the words I should 
utter on such occasion as this—my thoughts 
travel through space on this spiral air-route, 
I notice that circles are described. There are 
no towers of observation or visible means of 




THE DRAMA OF WORLDS 145 

converting or assembling thought waves. They 
circle as thin puffs of light, blown as thistle¬ 
down. If words and intelligible sentences may 
be carried across the dark waters to America 
and record made of them in human conscious¬ 
ness, and legibly transcribed, then indeed may 
we understand, for the God-made man stands 
fully revealed to the world.” 

“Here in my beloved England I wish to say, 
Peace be unto thee; that righteous peace justi¬ 
fied by right doing. 

“To the Premier: 

“As suddenly as war came—as suddenly it 
goes, leaving the fields white with the harvest 
for the reaping.” 

The author and Mr. Gladstone turn and 
walk toward the rear of the church, while a 
white-robed figure advances and I hear the 
name of William Shakespeare. Mr. Shake¬ 
speare does not commit his voice to speech. He 
holds in one hand a branch—it looks like a 
willow-bough, the tiny green leaves tremble in 
the breeze. He turns his face smiling toward 
America; he studies the waters, lifts his face 
upward and watches the flight of a seagull. 

The Drama of Worlds imparts an impetus to 
thought; 

Time, winged with spears takes flight 
Beneath the shadow of the night, 


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Strolling in heavy-hearted ease, 

To see whate’er there be of light 
Beyond this vale of tears, 

In star-dimmed, fever-rimmed spheres. 

Between the here and there, 

Methinks I see a gleam of hope, 

Rebound from wave crest sea of barren shore; 

Further, O Sea, rebound and vibrant be 
Thy never-ending rhapsody of glee; 

Outstretch thy vibrant arm to mastery. 

Methinks, mayhap ’twill trouble be, 

When day comes lingering ’long 
The path of all the yesterday 
Of hope-strewn hours. 

Oh, silence then 

The songs that float untaught, 

Give to the bird the song to sing 
Of days that are to be, 

Of nights agone; of flames erased; 

Be gentle-minded; ’tis guard to thee within 
the fold; 

Methinks the day enfolds the sphere above, 

’Tis sight I get of rays beyond the dunes. 

Get hither and begone, the sight of war 
Interlude the space with plow and hoe. 

Mingle thy shade with garlands green; 

Betimes I see a beam of light 
Stream bright above fair England’s sky; 

Avaunt, they darkened night, avaunt! 

Lord Beaconsfield approaches within the en¬ 
closure. He pauses a moment to gather a 


THE DRAMA OF WORLDS 147 

flower. He sends a quick thought, inquiring if 
I can tell the name of the flower. I recognize 
a white chrysanthemum. He tells me that he 
wears this flower in honor of Japan; that Japan 
has taken her place before the nations of the 
world, established in equity and justice. My 
heart responds in gratitude, while Lord Bea- 
consfield watches the approach of a German 
hydroplane which gradually rises and floats 
away in the sky. He speaks, watching the aero¬ 
plane, ejaculating: 

‘"Intellect slain! Pity the people!” 

Then, with upraised and smiling face, he ex¬ 
tends his arms toward the English Channel and 
says: 

“The day-star approaches.” 

Then, as if to demonstrate the fact of im¬ 
mortality through the human personality, he 
inquires if I am able to read thoughts that are 
not directed to me. I respond by telling him 
that only as his thoughts mingle with mine 
through telepathic correspondence, am I able to 
know what he thinks about. 

The author approaches and after a moment, 
informs me that they wish to speak separately 
of diametrically opposed matter in symposium, 
offering further test of conscious differentiation 
of personality. 

Dr. James of Harvard suggests a point of 
cleavage. Henry Ward Beecher suggests the 


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brain is a reflectograph, the process mental, 
spiritual, and highly psychic. William E. 
Channing wishes to know how far thought may 
travel without loss of energy. 

Dr. James replies that it gains in power and 
energy, especially when unified with correlative 
thought. 

George Washington observes that science is 
opening the walls of division between the two 
worlds—which the author demonstrates can 
be accomplished through the energizing power 
of knowledge applied when the human person¬ 
ality is generally understood by the world. 

Mr. Lincoln wishes a private word with me 
and tells me that he knew my father and brother 
in the Civil War of 1860-1865. A thrill of 
pleasure and a smile of recognition at this— 
while Mr. Lincoln speaks of advancement of 
science and the understanding of spiritual laws. 
He commends the President of the United 
States: 

“The President is wise in deferring war on 
Germany, for behind the warring element are 
the stricken people who are bearing heavy bur¬ 
dens imposed by autocracy. To war against 
the people would be ignominious; but to de¬ 
prive the people of those who enslave and en¬ 
thrall them, would be equity. This may only 
be accomplished by the people themselves who 
will throw off the yoke of bondage as Russia 


THE DRAMA OF WORLDS 149 

has done and as others in bondage will do. God 
haste the day of their deliverance!” 

Patrick Henry extends to his beloved United 
States the warning of preparation. 

“Be mindful of the past.” 

He declares the state of ease and wealth 
inimical to progress. 

“Be stalwart, like men, girded and ready in 
body, firm in mind and by appointment, brave 
and gifted.” 

In military tactics, he advises special training 
of young people of both sexes. 

* * * * 

Note by the Correspondent 

The following incident may add further 
proof! Ralph Waldo Emerson was the last 
speaker to be introduced. So far, each one 
spoke distinctly and without hesitation, the 
message was recorded. 

There seemed to be conveyed to my inner 
receptivity the scene enacted at London. I ap¬ 
prehended the movement of each speaker as 
related in this chapter. 

Emerson was the last to speak. The world 
loves Emerson and I anticipated much from 
this interview, but, strange to relate, my pen 
refused to write. After waiting eagerly for 
some minutes, I gave up the work for the eve- 
ning. 

The next morning, I tried once and received 


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just the few halting words—“I feel like a school 
boy.” 

The third morning I received the message 
from Mr. Emerson. 

In commenting on this episode, a literary 
man in New York told the following story, say¬ 
ing, “That was characteristic of Emerson.” 

A number of Emerson’s friends called one 
evening and during the visit, Emerson excused 
himself to write a telegram. After waiting a 
long while, his friends wondered at his pro¬ 
longed delay. 

They found him in his study pondering over 
the telegram. Glancing up with a look of per¬ 
plexity on his face, he said: 

“I cannot get this telegram in ten words.” 


CHAPTER XXVII 


RALPH WALDO EMERSON 

I AM EXCEEDINGLY desirous of im¬ 
proving the opportunity to add my quota 
to that which has already been said. 

My philosophy has always been that of bal¬ 
ance. Justice is the fulcrum of the individual 
soul by which each life must balance to main¬ 
tain its equilibrium. 

In the recognition of life as I have learned 
to define it, I observe the very complexity of 
it eludes minute inspection. It is through this 
avenue of research that we must now proceed 
if we would obtain proof of that which we seek 
to demonstrate. The balance of the soul— 
balance suggests equal distribution of whatso¬ 
ever product weighed. The weight of responsi¬ 
bility adjusts itself to the wealth of the individ¬ 
ual, whether that may consist of spiritual or 
material culture. 

You will gather that whatever is sown will 
return in time—as seed tossed about by variable 
winds. Fortune gathers the same and returns 
the same in kind to the sower. It is compensa¬ 
tion. 

Analytical understanding of life is necessary 



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to the student of life; without this understand¬ 
ing there is lack of balance. And those who 
refuse to gather wisdom from laws made for 
the enlightenment of the understanding, must 
remain on the plane of the untaught. To ad¬ 
vance in wisdom is to throw aside the chains of 
conventionality. Ideas become fixed. 

My student friend will at once realize that 
fixedness of ideas results in disuse of faculty 
and renders it impotent. The receptacle of 
thought becomes stagnated and when Truth is 
presented, the thought-waves are blunted, as 
a river in its advance to the sea becomes clogged 
with driftwood and debris. 

Truth revealed elevates the consciousness; 
the light illumes the interior being. Ideas thus 
sharpened by contact with universal wisdom, 
gain strength by association and assimilation. 

Faith is an attribute of soul product; it is 
used to balance values. Observe the chart, the 
old Book of Books, to ascertain for yourself 
how faith entered into the values of life experi¬ 
ence. Everywhere the Book differentiates those 
who lived by faith and those who did not under¬ 
stand faith as a soul attribute. 

To most people, the acceptance of faith, in¬ 
comprehensible to understanding, will measure 
in the balance for knowledge. This is persona 
grata; the gift to the individual, the passport 
in lieu of coin. 


RALPH WALDO EMERSON 


153 


Now abideth these three: Faith, Hope and 
Love; but the greatest of these is Love. Faith 
comes first, as it opens the channels of recep¬ 
tivity to hope. Love enters and abides, where 
faith stands sentinel. 

Imperial Host, 

Within Thy tent of stars, 

Guarded by Faith outside and Hope within, 

Pity thine alien brother, Doubt, without. 

Be swift. 

Thy mantle bring, while angel voices sing 
Hallelujahs to the King. 


CHAPTER XXVIII 


LETTER FROM THE AUTHOR 

New York City, 
March 26 , 1917 . 

I N REVIEWING the thought presented in 
these pages, I have endeavored to empha¬ 
size the human personality as the path 
to knowledge. If I have burdened the reader 
in my effort to explain Truth from my exalted 
standpoint, I have done so through my en¬ 
deavor to explain Truth as it is, incorporate 
within the soul of man, which is often mistaken 
as without special value in relation to discov¬ 
ery. 

My evidence is summed up with the essential 
premise, personality; if research still fails to 
substantiate evidence, then must the cycle of 
time engage in still further revolutions through 
space until time and culture of faculty obtains 
discernment. 

I have given to the world lighted by the torch 
of fire, a light that shineth unto the perfect day.' 
It is mine to spread this fire abroad, gifted with 
Divine understanding, granted to opportunity 
through individual culture. It is my privilege 



LETTER FROM THE AUTHOR 155 

to employ my God-given power in spreading 
this light to those who sit in darkness and suffer 
in the chains of war and desolation. I spread 
the light. God never leaves nor forsakes His 
people. When the emergency comes, God also 
comes to meet common need. Man’s impor¬ 
tunity is God’s opportunity. He is the Father 
of mankind. This is Truth. The essential 
need of the world is recognition of this fact. 
We are born of Him—one with Him. He 
suffers with us, meets our need. Not to recog¬ 
nize this truth is to fail in our study of the 
personality. 

“I am come that ye might have life more 
abundant.” 

We have not yet reached the experience of 
abundant life until we emerge from our chrys¬ 
alis of ignorance into the development of under¬ 
standing, awaiting culture through Christ. 

The beautiful plan of creation unfolds to the 
understanding of the developed soul made per¬ 
fect as Christ is perfect; having within itself 
the culture of creation, the heritage of king- 
ship, that oneness with the Divine, and the 
mastery of the world. 

Faithfully yours, 

(Signed) Frederic W. H. Myers. 























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